Hi Thomas, This was previously discussed and rejected 5 years ago in thread: "Alter daemon scheduling priority with renice for rc.d"
See: https://marc.info/?t=138746066600001 Subsequently I found login.conf is perfect. Some examples: daemon-cellar:\ :priority=18:\ :tc=daemon: avahi_daemon:\ :tc=daemon-cellar: cupsd:\ :setenv=:\ :priority=12:\ :tc=daemon: cvsyncd:\ :tc=daemon-cellar: dbus_daemon:\ :tc=daemon-cellar: dhcp:\ :priority=15:\ :tc=daemon: identd:\ :priority=7:\ :tc=daemon: inetd:\ :priority=10:\ :tc=daemon: nmbd:\ :tc=daemon-cellar: smbd:\ :priority=9:\ :tc=daemon: spamd:\ :priority=5:\ :tc=daemon: spamlogd:\ :tc=spamd: squid:\ :priority=1:\ :openfiles-cur=4096:\ :openfiles-max=8192:\ :tc=daemon: sshd:\ :priority=-10:\ :tc=daemon: unbound:\ :priority=-5:\ :openfiles-cur=512:\ :openfiles-max=718:\ :tc=daemon: nsd:\ :priority=-5:\ :tc=daemon: etc. etc. etc. Cheers, -- Craig Skinner | http://linkd.in/yGqkv7