Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.45
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
popularity-contest's cronjob (/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest)
should use ionice in order to be [even] less intrusive.
I've attached a simple patch.
Franklin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.22 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.14.18 package maintenance system for Deb
Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii cron 3.0pl1-104 management of regular background p
ii exim4 4.69-5 meta-package to ease Exim MTA (v4)
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-5+b1 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
-- debconf information excluded
--- /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest.orig 2008-05-28 09:03:29.000000000
+0200
+++ /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest 2008-05-28 22:40:42.000000000 +0200
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@
exit 0
fi
+# See ionice(1)
+if [ -x /usr/bin/ionice ]; then
+ IONICE="/usr/bin/ionice -c2"
+fi
+
# keep old logs
cd /var/log
umask 022
@@ -39,7 +44,7 @@
run_popcon()
{
- su -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/sbin/popularity-contest" nobody
+ $IONICE su -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/sbin/popularity-contest" nobody
}
do_sendmail()
