[Franklin Piat] > popularity-contest's cronjob (/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest) > should use ionice in order to be [even] less intrusive.
Make sense to me. > I've attached a simple patch. I suspect adding something like this to the script is less intrusive: ionice -c2 -p $$ > /dev/null 2>&1 || true It change the nice level on the script process. Btw, why did you choose class 2 (best-effort) instead of class 3 (idle)? I thought class 2 was the default, thus making the operation a no-op? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]