HI! William wrote: > My myth machine also serves are my mail filter and I have noticed that when > fetchmail receives mail it causes livetv to pause briefly. Is there a way to > boost the niceness of both the front and backends? Or to make > fetchmail/spamassassin/clamav behave better on disk i/o? I am running FC2 > with a pair of drives in lvm mode formatted with xfs.
I am renicing mythfrontend and X for smoother playback: renice -2 `ps -C mythfrontend -o pid=` renice -12 `ps -C X -o pid=` Also, I have niced Apache and my mail system (FC3): I start fetchmail via /etc/rc.local: nice fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc --syslog I start imapd via xinetd, so in /etc/init.d/xinetd: daemon nice $prog -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid "$EXTRAOPTIONS" Postfix, /etc/init.d/postfix: nice /usr/sbin/postfix start 2>/dev/null 1>&2 && success || failure Apache, /etc/init.d/httpd: LANG=$HTTPD_LANG daemon nice $httpd $OPTIONS Thomas _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
