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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [conntrack-tools PATCH 2/4] conntrackd: make the daemon run in
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 10:15:52 +0200
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On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 10:53:53PM +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> On 6 June 2017 at 13:10, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> >
> > But I think we should keep the Nice and Scheduler clauses. Just in
> > case anyone wants to do this fine grain tunning.
> >
> 
> The nice value can be changed at runtime externally: using the
> nice/renice commands
> Perhaps is a bit redundant to have it included in the conntrackd code.
> Also, nice values are somehow overridden by either SCHED_RR (our
> default) or SCHED_FIFO.
> Not sure if it makes sense to run in RT and then lower priority by
> means of nice.
> 
> I'm tempted to just remove the nice thing in v2, what do you think?

Nice and Sched overlap, yes.

So we can just deprecate Nice and still keep Sched around.

Fine with this?