Bug#234652: apache: Apache should run at low priority when cleaning the cache.

[Greg Kochanski <gpk@kochanski.org>]

Package: apache
Version: 1.3.29.0.1-3
Severity: wishlist

When Apache it configured as a cacheing proxy server,
it runs its periodic cache cleaning at its normal priority
(nice=0).
The cleaning involves a lot of disk reading, and tends to bog the
system down.

It would be nicer if the cache cleaning were run at a lower
priority.   The priority could depend on the amount of
free disk space remaining, and might also depend on
how heavily loaded the system is.    Or, maybe just
nice it to -10.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux gpk 2.6.3 #1 Tue Feb 24 22:15:09 GMT 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages apache depends on:
ii  apache-common               1.3.29.0.1-3 Support files for all Apache webse
ii  debconf                     1.3.22       Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                        1.10.18      Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb4.1                    4.1.25-16    Berkeley v4.1 Database Libraries [
ii  libexpat1                   1.95.6-6     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libmagic1                   4.07-2       File type determination library us
ii  libpam0g                    0.76-15      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  logrotate                   3.6.5-2      Log rotation utility
ii  mime-support                3.24-1       MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  perl [perl5]                5.8.2-2      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

-- debconf information:
* apache/enable-suexec: false
  apache/server-name: gpk.wftp.org
  apache/document-root: /var/www
  apache/server-port: 80
  apache/init: true
  apache/server-admin: webmaster@gpk.wftp.org