[Logcheck-devel] Bug#535562: logcheck runs at normal I/O priority, and is hard-coded to nice -n10

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Tim Small <tim at buttersideup.com> [2009.07.03.1148 +0200]:
> 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...

It's hard to say that this will be accepted, but the problem you
describe is real. So I'd say you should work on the patch. ;)

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