On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 12:14:29PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to give my lpd daemon and the magicfilter filters and its
> scripts higher priority when printing. If my cpu is being heavily used
> then my printer(HP 660C deskjet) is very slow. During one slow print
> session I tried giving the filter a nice level of -5 and the printer
> started zipping right along. So now I would like to give lpd, the
> filters, and the various scripts a nice level that will give it some
> priority. Can I just nice lpd and its children will inherit the nice
> level? The info pages for nice don't give very man details.
>
Hi,
I use lprng and replaced in /etc/init.d/lprng a line
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
--exec $DAEMON
with
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --startas /usr/bin/nice \
--exec $DAEMON -- -12 $DAEMON
Mirek
