On 8/27/2011 22:29, Ben Cottrell wrote:
On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:23:51 -0700, AGC wrote:I did try to put just -N on the flags but it doesn't work. I can see in top that ntpd is not running at higher priority as if the rc_flags were being ignored entirely."Nice" is different from "priority". Are you looking at the correct field in top? You can also check nice values with, say, "ps -o nice -p<pid>". The nice value *influences* the priority, but sometimes not as much as you would think :-)
I am looking at the right field. ;)But I can also see that all the options set in rc_flags already (before I did any editing) are not showing up in ps.
For example, I can see several things running with options:
115 ? Ss 0:47.73 /usr/sbin/syslogd -s
374 ? IWs 0:00.06 /usr/sbin/inetd -l
377 ? I 0:25.43 qmgr -l -t unix -u
However, ntpd isn't:
9116 ? Ss 0:02.50 /susr/sbin/ntpd
But, rc_flags in an unmodified /etc/rc.d/ntpd says:
rc_flags="-u ntpd:ntpd -i ${ntpd_chrootdir} $rc_flags"
So at the very least I would think I could see:
9116 ? Ss 0:02.50 /susr/sbin/ntpd -u ntpd:ntpd -i ...
This implies to me that ntpd isn't being fed any of the rc_flags at all.