Apologies for double posting, I just re-discovered nssm: http://nssm.cc/usage - it has a priority setting for the process. Question remains please concerning service signals and graceful shutdown. Thanks, Rob
On 07/17/14 19:18, nx...@robajz.info wrote: > Hi Botond, thanks for the answer. > > I have seen these techniques with task manager and unfortunately it will > not fly on production serves for multiple reasons (technical and > operational). > > I'm thinking now of service wrapper like srvany that might allow me to > do that or perhaps I might just write one in c#. Would there be much > concern in nxlog.exe regarding service signals and how about shutting > down gracefully if I wrap the process say with srvany and cmd script or > with custom c# service? > > Thanks and regards, Rob > > > On 07/17/14 13:09, nxlog-ce-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: >> Message: 1 >> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:37:49 +0200 >> From: Botond Botyanszki <b...@nxlog.org> >> Subject: Re: [nxlog-ce-users] Change nxlog process priority >> To: nxlog-ce-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Message-ID: <20140717103749.792ec84d@mephisto> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >> >> Hi Rob, >> >> Not sure what's the best way to do this on windows either but there are >> tools which could work, see this for example: >> http://www.askvg.com/how-to-permanently-set-process-priority-in-windows-task-manager/ >> YMMW. >> >> Regards, >> Botond >> >> On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 18:13:46 +0000 >> nx...@robajz.info wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >From my localhost UDP load testing it became apparent that to avoid >>> packet drop under heavy load, the receiving process needs to run with >>> higher process priority than the senders. This ensures that it has the >>> CPU cycles to handle all the input where it has to compete with the senders. >>> >>> Local UDP sink is part of my design and hence I'm wondering if there's >>> some simple way to prop the process priority of nxlog on windows >>> (windows 2008 server actually). I wouldn't fancy some brutal external >>> scripts but well if it hs to be... Wish it was linux easy. >>> >>> Thanks a lot, Rob >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ nxlog-ce-users mailing list nxlog-ce-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nxlog-ce-users
