The init
process on a Debian server (VPS) I've inherited has its nice
value set to +10
.
There's nothing particularly obscure installed on the system. It has a LAMP stack and does a lot of IO and will need upgrading soon.
My suspicion is that a previous admin set it (either by accident or not), so would like to know if setting a nice
value for init
has any real benefit/purpose. I'm aware init is special, and I've never observed an init process using CPU or MEM, so it seems strange to set its nice
value.