insane -19 nice level for system service (mailgraph) - is it acceptable?

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4 at 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.  The
process is running at a low priority level; do you have a problem with
that?

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.