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Starting sshd With a Higher Nice Value
I wanted sshd on my MythTV box to start with a lower priority than other processes. Sometimes I do large transfers to this box over scp (although usually I use nfs). I tried:
nice -n 10 /usr/sbin/sshd ${myopts} ${SSHD_OPTS}and
start-stop-daemon -N 10 --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/${SVCNAME}.pid --signal HUP