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

Thu Aug 18 17:20:20 UTC 2005
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 13:02 -0400, David Johnston wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 11:49 -0500, CentOS-List at 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.
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you might be able to tack it on to /etc/sysconfig/samba launch options
(this of course is untested)

Craig