[Dovecot] dovecot process nice value

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 16:25 +0000, Daniel Watts wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 13:05 +0000, Daniel Watts wrote:
> >> My imap processes seem to all be running with a nice value of -15 (top 
> >> priority). Is this usual? Not sure if this is a dovecot setting or 
> >> something going on with my own system configuration somewhere.
> > 
> > Normally Dovecot doesn't touch processes' priorities, so they all run
> > with whatever priority was specified for the master process when
> > starting it.
> > 
> 
> Hi timo - thanks for this.
> The /usr/sbin/dovecot process itself was indeed niced to -15.
> Why would that be? Can dovecot specify it's own nice value upon startup? 

Nope.

> When you say 'specified for the master process' I'm not sure if you mean 
> in a config somewhere.

I meant whatever/however dovecot was started. I don't know if some
init.d scripts play with priorities. Or it could have just been that
your shell was running with -15 when starting dovecot.

Anyway, I don't think Dovecot itself should change its priority on
startup.

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