utils/collectd: run with low priority

Even on a powerful platform a collectd process'
activities are sometimes affecting throoughput and
latency. This is a backgroud process, that should not
be running with default priority.
Even if it is a little deplayed, that is not a worry in
this case. The routing should be the main priority,
stats collection can wait a bit.

Tested on Netgear R7800
Signed-off-by: Marc Benoit <marcb62185@gmail.com>
Make niceness more moderate, bump version.
Signed-off-by: Hannu Nyman <hannu.nyman@iki.fi>

diff --git a/utils/collectd/Makefile b/utils/collectd/Makefile
index 090ee177f26757d3075833e91665c18e68457638..b3d5fb843e840181b6321dd6659bc9d41a11c828 100644 (file)
--- a/utils/collectd/Makefile
+++ b/utils/collectd/Makefile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=collectd
 PKG_VERSION:=5.8.0
-PKG_RELEASE:=5
+PKG_RELEASE:=6
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.bz2
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://collectd.org/files/ \

diff --git a/utils/collectd/files/collectd.init b/utils/collectd/files/collectd.init
index cb314d3516814a6706bfa70542e746501edf064c..668858b90266c24f97c4109ce7aab908eb782632 100644 (file)
--- a/utils/collectd/files/collectd.init
+++ b/utils/collectd/files/collectd.init
@@ -5,11 +5,13 @@ START=80
 STOP=10
 
 USE_PROCD=1
+NICEPRIO=5
 
 start_service() {
        mkdir -m 0755 -p /var/lib/collectd
        procd_open_instance
        procd_set_param command /usr/sbin/collectd -f
+       procd_set_param nice "$NICEPRIO"
        procd_close_instance
 }