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Re: Automatically renicing a process
From: |
Martin Pala |
Subject: |
Re: Automatically renicing a process |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:21:47 +0100 |
Hello,
you can modify the start command to renice the process, for example:
check process myproc with pidfile /var/run/myproc.pid
start program = "/bin/bash -c '/etc/init.d/myproc start &&
/usr/bin/renice +1 `cat /var/run/myproc.pid`'"
Regards,
Martin
On Mar 7, 2012, at 5:12 PM, SL wrote:
> Hello
>
> I didn't get any match on monit+renice, neither on the mailing list nor on
> the web. And yet, I think I have a pretty basic use case, so I might be
> missing something totally obvious.
>
> I would like to automatically renice a process after it starts.
>
> I have a NAS in charge of transcoding a webradio in realtime and streaming it
> to my LAN. Whenever another CPU-intensive is launched, the streaming starts
> skipping. Increasing the priority of the transcoding by hand prevents the
> skipping.
>
> The transcoding server starts with a /etc/init.d script that uses
> start-stop-daemon. start-stop-daemon lets you define the nice level, but it
> would require editing the Debian packaged script, which I would like to avoid.
>
> How would you do that?
>
> Thanks
> --
> Sylvain
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