insane -19 nice level for system service (mailgraph) - is it acceptable?
Michał Piotrowski
mkkp4x4 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 8 17:01:02 UTC 2010
2010/12/8 Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>:
> 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.
Sorry :)
> The
> process is running at a low priority level;
Nice -19 is the _higest_ priority - not low.
> do you have a problem with
> that?
Yes, I think that it's wrong.
>
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> 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.
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Michal
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