Package: boinc-client Version: 7.6.22+dfsg-2 Severity: normal This can be simply accomplished by adding IOSchedulingClass=idle to the [Service] subsection of /lib/systemd/system/boinc-client.service . No need to invoke ionice as is done from the old init.d script..
-- Package-specific info: -- Contents of /etc/default/boinc-client: # This file is /etc/default/boinc-client, it is a configuration file for the # /etc/init.d/boinc-client init script. # Set this to 1 to enable and to 0 to disable the init script. ENABLED="1" # Set this to 1 to enable advanced scheduling of the BOINC core client and # all its sub-processes (reduces the impact of BOINC on the system's # performance). SCHEDULE="1" # The BOINC core client will be started with the permissions of this user. BOINC_USER="boinc" # This is the data directory of the BOINC core client. BOINC_DIR="/var/lib/boinc-client" # This is the location of the BOINC core client, that the init script uses. # If you do not want to use the client program provided by the boinc-client # package, you can specify here an alternative client program. #BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/local/bin/boinc" BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/bin/boinc" # Here you can specify additional options to pass to the BOINC core client. # Type 'boinc --help' or 'man boinc' for a full summary of allowed options. #BOINC_OPTS="--allow_remote_gui_rpc" BOINC_OPTS="" # Scheduling options # Set SCHEDULE="0" if prefering to run with upstream default priority # settings. # Nice levels. When systems are truly busy, e.g. because of too many active # scientific applications started by the boinc client, there is a chance for # the boinc client not to be granted sufficient opportunity to check for # scientific applications to be alive and make the (wrong) decision to # terminate the scientific app. This is particularly an issue with many # apps started in parallel on modern multi-core systems and extra overheads # for the download and uploads of files with the project servers. Another # concern is the latency for scientific applications to communicate with the # graphics card, which should be low. All such values should be set and # controled from within the BOINC client. The Debian init script also sets # extra constrains via chrt on real time performance and via ionice on # I/O performance, which is beyond the regular BOINC client. It then was # too easy to use that code to also constrain minimal nice levels. We still # think about how to best distinguish GPU applications from regular apps. BOINC_NICE_CLIENT=10 BOINC_NICE_APP_DEFAULT=19 #BOINC_NICE_APP_GPU=5 # not yet used # ionice classes. See manpage of ionice (1) in the util-linux package. BOINC_IONICE_CLIENT=3 # idle #BOINC_IONICE_APP_DEFAULT=3 # idle, not yet used #BOINC_IONICE_APP_GPU=2 # best effort, not yet used -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (510, 'unstable'), (510, 'testing'), (509, 'experimental'), (500, 'wily'), (500, 'vivid'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Foreign Architectures: amd64 Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages boinc-client depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii ca-certificates 20160104 ii cdebconf [debconf-2.0] 0.201 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.58 ii init-system-helpers 1.27 ii libboinc7 7.6.22+dfsg-2 ii libc6 2.21-7 ii libcurl3 7.47.0-1 ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-5 ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-5 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxss1 1:1.2.2-1 pn python:any <none> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 boinc-client recommends no packages. Versions of packages boinc-client suggests: pn boinc-client-fglrx <none> pn boinc-client-nvidia-cuda <none> pn boinc-client-opencl <none> ii boinc-manager 7.6.22+dfsg-2 ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+5 -- Configuration Files: /etc/boinc-client/global_prefs_override.xml changed [not included] /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg' -- debconf information excluded -- debsums errors found: debsums: changed file /lib/systemd/system/boinc-client.service (from boinc-client package)
