Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server
On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 13:57 +0100, Tazman Deville wrote:
> I have a little server running here in my office,
> and logrotate kept running at c. 7am, and using up 100% CPU.
> I changed the line in /etc/crontab to run cron.daily scripts
> at 4:15am, instead of 7:whateveritwas am.
> 15 4 * * *
> Also, in cron.daily/logrotate
> I added
> nice -n 15
If you do not want this process to take precedence, why did you choose
such a low niceness to other processes? Shouldn't you have chosen
something above 10 or at least above 0?
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André N. Batista
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