Package: unattended-upgrades Version: 0.79.4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, When unattended-upgrades starts, it sets nice to 19 and ionice to idle, before running the main function. Thus, every process restarted by any package upgrades inherits that nice/ionice settings. This is unexpected, and sub-optimal, especially for important processes like database servers (postgres/mysql) etc. I expect that any restarted processes should get normal nice/ionice settings.
Assuming unattended-upgrades itself does a reasonable amount of processing that needs to be kept away from causing system impact, I expect the solution will be to use reset the nice/ionice settings around calls to apt-get/dpkg. If it's not, the nice/ionice should be at least able to be disabled via config options, if not removed entirely. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-28-vserver (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=POSIX (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages unattended-upgrades depends on: ii apt 0.9.7.7 ii apt-utils 0.9.7.7 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.49 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian8 ii lsb-release 4.1+Debian8 ii python 2.7.3~rc2-1 ii python-apt 0.8.8.1 ii ucf 3.0025+nmu3 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 unattended-upgrades recommends no packages. Versions of packages unattended-upgrades suggests: pn bsd-mailx <none> ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.80-7 -- debconf information: unattended-upgrades/enable_auto_updates: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
