[Logcheck-devel] Bug#535562: logcheck runs at normal I/O priority, and is hard-coded to nice -n10
Tim Small
tim at buttersideup.com
Fri Jul 3 09:48:15 UTC 2009
Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.69
Severity: normal
logcheck is a "batchy" job, but currently runs at normal I/O priority,
and is hard-coded to run with a niceness of 10. As a result logcheck
can degrade interactive performance on machines with a lot of log
traffic, relatively slow CPU or expensive I/O.
It'd be useful if the "ionice" and "schedtool" utilities could be used to
provide more fine-grained control of the CPU and disk I/O priority of
logcheck (e.g. default to "idle" or "batch" priorities). This could be
configurable using the debconf mechanisms.
If this is accepted as a bug, I can try and work on an acceptable
patch...
Thanks,
Tim.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent
ii cron 3.0pl1-105 management of regular background p
ii lockfile-progs 0.1.11-0.1 Programs for locking and unlocking
ii logtail 1.2.69 Print log file lines that have not
ii mailx 1:20071201-3 Transitional package for mailx ren
ii postfix [mail-tran 2.5.5-1.1 High-performance mail transport ag
ii rsyslog [system-lo 3.18.6-4 enhanced multi-threaded syslogd
Versions of packages logcheck recommends:
ii logcheck-database 1.3.1 database of system log rules for t
Versions of packages logcheck suggests:
pn syslog-summary <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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