On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 07:38:24PM -0300, André Nunes Batista wrote: > On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 13:57 +0100, Tazman Deville wrote: > > I have a little server running here in my office, > > and logrotate kept running at c. 7am, and using up 100% CPU. > > I changed the line in /etc/crontab to run cron.daily scripts > > at 4:15am, instead of 7:whateveritwas am. > > 15 4 * * * > > Also, in cron.daily/logrotate > > I added > > nice -n 15 > > If you do not want this process to take precedence, why did you choose > such a low niceness to other processes? Shouldn't you have chosen > something above 10 or at least above 0?
Perhaps I misunderstand, but from reading man nice, my understanding is that -20 is the hightest priority, and 19 is the lowest, so I assume 15 was low priority. I've tried to renice the process in htop now that it's running again, and that doesn't seem to be working. Taz -- http://tazmandevil.info taz hungry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140225125513.gb13...@myownsite.me
