Re: howto raise priority(nice level) of lpd and filters

[Mirek Kwasniak <mirek@zind.ikem.pwr.wroc.pl>]

On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 12:14:29PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to give my lpd daemon and the magicfilter filters and its
> scripts higher priority when printing.  If my cpu is being heavily used
> then my printer(HP 660C deskjet) is very slow.  During one slow print
> session I tried giving the filter a nice level of -5 and the printer
> started zipping right along.  So now I would like to give lpd, the
> filters, and the various scripts a nice level that will give it some
> priority.  Can I just nice lpd and its children will inherit the nice
> level?  The info pages for nice don't give very man details.
> 

Hi,

I use lprng and replaced in /etc/init.d/lprng a line

        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
                --exec $DAEMON

with

        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --startas /usr/bin/nice \
                --exec $DAEMON -- -12 $DAEMON


Mirek