This one time, at band camp, David Baron said: > On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps -elF | egrep '(ADDR|clam)' > > F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN RSS PSR STIME TTY > > TIME CMD 1 S clamav 2657 1 0 78 0 - 1818 pause 1672 0 > > May09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/freshclam -d --quiet 1 S clamav 13825 > > 1 0 89 0 - 19769 inet_c 57108 0 May13 ? 00:10:05 > > /usr/sbin/clamd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo renice 10 13825 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps -elF | egrep '(ADDR|clam)' > > F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN RSS PSR STIME TTY > > TIME CMD 1 S clamav 2657 1 0 78 0 - 1818 pause 1672 0 > > May09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/freshclam -d --quiet 1 S clamav 13825 > > 1 0 89 10 - 19769 inet_c 57108 0 May13 ? 00:10:05 > > /usr/sbin/clamd > > > > It seems to work fine here. Perhaps the system monitor doesn't handle > > threaded apps in a clever way? > > I was also able to renice and the renice number shows up in top as it shows > up > in your test. How do I tell if it is "for real"?
What do you mean? Why do you think ps would lie? > How would it be best to set it up, in /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon? > > Ultimately, there should be a parameter in /etc/default/clamav-daemon that is > read into /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon. Currently, no other daemon that I am aware supports being nice'd from the init script. The init scripts for clamav are already fairly baroque, and adding more functionality to them for a fairly corner case request doesn't seem like the best thing to do, sorry. Just out of curiosity, why do you need to nice clamd? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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