Package: logcheck Version: 1.2.69 Severity: normal logcheck is a "batchy" job, but currently runs at normal I/O priority, and is hard-coded to run with a niceness of 10. As a result logcheck can degrade interactive performance on machines with a lot of log traffic, relatively slow CPU or expensive I/O.
It'd be useful if the "ionice" and "schedtool" utilities could be used to provide more fine-grained control of the CPU and disk I/O priority of logcheck (e.g. default to "idle" or "batch" priorities). This could be configurable using the debconf mechanisms. If this is accepted as a bug, I can try and work on an acceptable patch... Thanks, Tim. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages logcheck depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent ii cron 3.0pl1-105 management of regular background p ii lockfile-progs 0.1.11-0.1 Programs for locking and unlocking ii logtail 1.2.69 Print log file lines that have not ii mailx 1:20071201-3 Transitional package for mailx ren ii postfix [mail-tran 2.5.5-1.1 High-performance mail transport ag ii rsyslog [system-lo 3.18.6-4 enhanced multi-threaded syslogd Versions of packages logcheck recommends: ii logcheck-database 1.3.1 database of system log rules for t Versions of packages logcheck suggests: pn syslog-summary <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Logcheck-devel mailing list Logcheck-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/logcheck-devel