cron-jobs: use renice to lower job priority

Lower the job priority of our cron jobs so they don't interfere with other
more important things on the server. None of these are very CPU intensive,
but priority for I/O operations should go elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>

3 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cron-jobs/adjust-permissions b/cron-jobs/adjust-permissions
index 232d48a..1493f4b 100755
--- a/cron-jobs/adjust-permissions
+++ b/cron-jobs/adjust-permissions
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ fi
 
 /bin/touch /tmp/.ftpmaint.lck
 
+#adjust the nice level to run at a lower priority
+/usr/bin/renice +10 -p $$ > /dev/null
+
 cd /home/ftp
 /bin/chown -R ftp:ftp-arch core/os/i686
 /bin/chown -R ftp:ftp-arch core/os/x86_64
diff --git a/cron-jobs/createFileLists b/cron-jobs/createFileLists
index d6cbd18..044b6d7 100755
--- a/cron-jobs/createFileLists
+++ b/cron-jobs/createFileLists
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ touch "/tmp/createFileList.lock" || exit 1
 TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d /tmp/createFileList.XXXXXX) || exit 1
 CACHEDIR=$(mktemp -d /tmp/createFileList.XXXXXX) || exit 1
 
+#adjust the nice level to run at a lower priority
+/usr/bin/renice +10 -p $$ > /dev/null
+
 getpkgname() {
     local tmp
 
diff --git a/cron-jobs/ftpdir-cleanup b/cron-jobs/ftpdir-cleanup
index 65f0855..8b73956 100755
--- a/cron-jobs/ftpdir-cleanup
+++ b/cron-jobs/ftpdir-cleanup
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ trap ctrl_c 2
 
 /bin/touch "$LOCKFILE"
 
+#adjust the nice level to run at a lower priority
+/usr/bin/renice +10 -p $$ > /dev/null
+
 for repo in $repos; do
     for arch in $arches; do
         $(dirname $0)/../misc-scripts/ftpdir-cleanup $repo $arch