[Popcon-developers] Bug#483465: Bug#483465: popularity-contest: cronjob should use ionice

[Franklin PIAT]

Hello,

On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 19:42 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 07:08:45PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > [Franklin Piat]
> > > popularity-contest's cronjob (/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest)
> > > should use ionice in order to be [even] less intrusive.
> 
> Personnally, I do not like it, because this cause yet another package
> (schedutils) to be used by popcon, and for which the 'vote' data will
> be meaningless (we will have installed=vote).

ionice is now included in the util-linux package.

> Furthermore, I think this setting should be configured at the cron
> programm level, not for each cronjob separately.

That would be much "nicer" ;)

But since "nice" was never enabled globally for cron jobs, I didn't
considered asking for that.

For instance, there might be some cron jobs that actually "restart" a
daemon (instead of reload)...

We could reassign the bug to cron, but I'm afraid it might not be
applied in Lenny (because we're so close from freeze, and it's might be
considered difficult to the side-effects).

Franklin