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authorDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2011-11-17 10:17:55 -0600
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2011-11-17 10:17:55 -0600
commit9d2fdbe5bc6a0d9ab2907b377056851fc5eb56c3 (patch)
tree45c3ebe0d676cd1f3b7a2ed1c6755d27c77bee8b /devel
parentaa20c798ca8af365b2549591700e932a74d068b8 (diff)
reporead_inotify: nice the spawned subprocesses
This prevents the reporead job from taking over time from more important processes; this is not a rush task. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'devel')
-rwxr-xr-xdevel/management/commands/reporead_inotify.py13
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/devel/management/commands/reporead_inotify.py b/devel/management/commands/reporead_inotify.py
index acb53a54..c74762eb 100755
--- a/devel/management/commands/reporead_inotify.py
+++ b/devel/management/commands/reporead_inotify.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ correctly.
import logging
import multiprocessing
-import os.path
+import os
import pyinotify
import sys
import threading
@@ -113,10 +113,11 @@ class Database(object):
various bits of metadata and state representing the file path, when we last
updated, how long our delay is before performing the update, whether we are
updating now, etc.'''
- def __init__(self, arch, path, delay=60.0):
+ def __init__(self, arch, path, delay=60.0, nice=3):
self.arch = arch
self.path = path
self.delay = delay
+ self.nice = nice
self.mtime = None
self.last_import = None
self.update_thread = None
@@ -153,8 +154,12 @@ class Database(object):
# invoke reporead's primary method. we do this in a separate
# process for memory conservation purposes; these processes grow
# rather large so it is best to free up the memory ASAP.
- process = multiprocessing.Process(target=read_repo,
- args=[self.arch, self.path, {}])
+ def run():
+ if self.nice != 0:
+ os.nice(self.nice)
+ read_repo(self.arch, self.path, {})
+
+ process = multiprocessing.Process(target=run)
process.start()
process.join()
finally: