On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 09:57:04PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 10:06:18PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 08:53:13PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > as far as i can tell, there is no way to set the nice level other than > > > modifying the init script (/etc/init.d/clamav-daemon) to set it when > > > it gets called. This is supported by [0] which addresses this issue > > > briefly. > > > > I looked at the init script already, and couldn't figure out what > > start_daemon was for (not a command I can run as root). This time I > > Googled it and added "-n 10" and everything is great! > > I'm glad you sorted it out. I'll be curious to see how this works for > you in the long run... please report back. I would suspect that if > your system is really busy, you may get some timeouts in your mail > chain as a result. watch /var/log/exim4/paniclog (assuming you use > exim).
I don't expect to have any problems, but I'll watch the logs. Not really much mail goes through here, it's just the brief moments when some does that I've noticed responsiveness drop. Oh, and I'm using Postfix. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]