Re: [CentOS] Starting a process at a specified nice value.

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 11:49 -0500, CentOS-List@jamesplace.net wrote:

I wonder if someone could point me to the appropriate docs for my question? If I would like to cause my system to always start 'smbd' processes at priority 7 for example, how would I go about doing that.

I'm assuming there's a better way than running a cronjob every minute to renice existing processes.

smbd is started by /etc/init.d/smb

Find where that script starts smbd, and prefix smb with something like this: nice -n 7

This isn't a particularly elegant solution, but it will work.

You should note that upgrades to Samba may overwrite /etc/init.d/smb, so you may need to make this change again after an upgrade.