Re: Uploaded distributed-net 2.7001-1 (source i386) to master

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On 13 Jan 1998 joey@kitenet.net wrote:

> Source: distributed-net
> Binary: distributed-net
> Architecture: source i386
> Version: 2.7001-1

does this fix the bug in rc564 version 2.6403-3 which caused it to run
at a niceness of 0 (i.e. not nice at all)?  

I've been wondering why my niced cron jobs were never finishing and
tonight i tracked it down to rc564 which I *thought* was supposed to run
at nice 19, but is actually running without any niceness at all.

I have edited /etc/init.d/rc564 script so that it does:

        nice -n 19 \
          su nobody -c '/sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec \
            ./rc564 --pidfile /var/run/rc564.pid' \
            >> /var/log/rc564.log 2>&1 &

but then discovered that it's an option on /var/lib/rc564/rc564.ini:

the default setting of:

	niceness=0

should be:

	niceness=19


i notice in the changlog.gz that there is a note saying:

	"97.10.10 niceness 0 is now even lower priority in Win32 version"

this may be true for broken toys like NT but it certainly isn't true for
real machines.

craig

ps: renice-ing the rc564 process saw my load avg drop very quickly from
around 5.5 to just over 1.0.

--
craig sanders


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