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Subjectallow non root users to set io priority "idle" ?
Its possible to set the io priority using tools like ionice and syscalls.
But this works only as root.
Why can't a non root user change the priority of his processes to idle?
I understand that realtime priority requires root but why idle?
For instance the beagle trys to set its priority to idle but fails
because it does not run as root.
Any reason for this that I have missed? I can't think of a case where
setting the io priority to idle would have a negative impact for other
users or the whole system.

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