Once upon a time, Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4(a)gmail.com> said:
2010/12/8 Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>:
> Once upon a time, Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4(a)gmail.com> said:
>> I noticed that this service uses insane nice level -19
>>
http://notendur.hi.is/~johannbg/systemd/etc/rc.d/init.d/mailgraph
>> 8-|
>>
>> PRIORITY=-19
>> [..]
>> daemon nice $PRIORITY $exe -l $MAILLOG -d \
>> --daemon-pid=/var/run/mailgraph.pid \
>> --daemon-rrd=/var/lib/mailgraph $OPTIONS
>>
>> The same priority is used in the sample script. Does this service
>> _really_ needs such insane nice level?
>
> Why do you (repeatedly) call it "insane"? That's kind of rude.
Sorry :)
> The
> process is running at a low priority level;
Nice -19 is the _higest_ priority - not low.
I suggest you try the exact command given (and yes, the "nice" command
is confusing).
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.