Bug 795455 - yum-cron runs at nice 10 (from anacrontab), restarted service inherit that priority
Summary: yum-cron runs at nice 10 (from anacrontab), restarted service inherit that pr...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: yum
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: James Antill
QA Contact: Patrik Kis
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Depends On: 742363
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-20 15:29 UTC by RHEL Program Management
Modified: 2014-01-21 06:24 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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The anacron scheduler starts the yum-cron utility with the "nice" value of 10. This caused Yum's RPM transactions to run at very low priority level. Also, any updated service inherited this "nice" value, which influenced the system behavior. This update adds the "reset_nice" configuration option, which allows Yum to reset the "nice" value to 0 before running an RPM transaction. With this option set, Yum's RPM transactions run at normal priority level so that updated services are restarted with normal priority as expected.
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Last Closed: 2012-03-14 02:35:35 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2012:0386 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE yum bug fix update 2012-03-14 06:34:43 UTC

Description RHEL Program Management 2012-02-20 15:29:26 UTC 
This bug has been copied from bug #742363 and has been proposed
to be backported to 6.2 z-stream (EUS).
Comment 6 Miroslav Svoboda 2012-02-27 10:09:20 UTC 
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
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The anacron scheduler starts the yum-cron utility with the "nice" value of 10. This caused Yum's RPM transactions to run at very low priority level. Also, any updated service inherited this "nice" value, which influenced the system behavior. This update adds the "reset_nice" configuration option, which allows Yum to reset the "nice" value to 0 before running an RPM transaction. With this option set, Yum's RPM transactions run at normal priority level so that updated services are restarted with normal priority as expected.
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2012-03-14 02:35:35 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0386.html
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