[Dovecot] dovecot process nice value

[Daniel Watts]

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

Thanks,
Dan


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