On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Stephen Gran wrote: > 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.
Spamassassin certainly does support nice. Maybe it is not the best thing to do and I can, apparently, renice. > > Just out of curiosity, why do you need to nice clamd? A long virus scan, i.e. from weekly or daily cron job on a windows volume, does bog down the system a bit. I launch clamdscan with nice but this does not accomplish anything. Renicing clamd did not seem to make a difference but that is quite subjective. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
