Re: niceload --treat-limit-as-start-condition-only

[Ole Tange]

Maybe the --treat-limit-as-start-condition-only only makes sense for
--mem? In which case this might be a solution:

--start-mem: this amount of memory must be free or diskcache before starting

--run-mem: this amount of memory must be free or diskcache when running.

Can you think of situations where
--treat-limit-as-start-condition-only would make sense and where the
limit is not --mem, but --load or --disk-seeks or --noswap?

/Ole

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Ole Tange <tange@gnu.org> wrote:
> With --noswap, --mem, and --hard I came to think that it might be
> handy if niceload could treat the limits as a starting condition only
> and not monitor the limit continuously. It would especially make sense
> for --mem:
>
>  niceload --treat-limit-as-start-condition-only --mem 2g
> only_start_this_when_2g_is_free
>
> The above will wait until 2g is free and then start. It will, however,
> not suspend when less that 2g becomes free - thus making it useful for
> running programs that will eat up the 2g of RAM.
>
> But I need your advice: What is a shorter name for
> --treat-limit-as-start-condition-only?
>
>
> /Ole
>