Debian Bug report logs - #652600
logrotate: use nice and ionice to avoid slowing down system

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From: Jaka Jančar <jaka@kubje.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: logrotate: use nice and ionice to avoid slowing down system

Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:01:55 +0100

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Package: logrotate
Version: 3.7.8-6
Severity: wishlist


When logrotate begins compressing large log files, it will slow down our
server because of I/O activity to the point where it causes downtime.

It might be a good idea to start logrotate with a lower priority.

I have changed /etc/cron.daily/logrotate from:

    /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf

to:

    nice -n 19 ionice -c3 /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf

and it seems to do the trick.

Best,
 Jaka

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