> On May 7, 2018, at 11:50 PM, Ayappan P2 <ayapp...@in.ibm.com> wrote: > > We are doing "renice" on the main Postgresql process to give higher > scheduling priority because other critical operations depends on the database. > You are saying that the database processes take longer to relinquish their > resources and we won't achieve anything out of renice, So i assume renice of > the database processes is not at all required ? > > Thanks > Ayappan P >
Yes, if you make a db process nicer than the db takes longer to answer your queries. If the goal is to keep the load down on the db, that is usually going to be counterproductive.
