Starting a process at a specified nice value.

[david at littlebald.com (David Johnston)]

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 11:49 -0500, CentOS-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I wonder if someone could point me to the appropriate docs for my question? If 
> I would like to cause my system to always start 'smbd' processes at priority 
> 7 for example, how would I go about doing that. 
> 
> I'm assuming there's a better way than running a cronjob every minute to 
> renice existing processes. 
> 

smbd is started by /etc/init.d/smb

Find where that script starts smbd, and prefix smb with something like
this:
nice -n 7 

This isn't a particularly elegant solution, but it will work.

You should note that upgrades to Samba may overwrite /etc/init.d/smb, so
you may need to make this change again after an upgrade.