I'm running fedora-review from a shell that's been renice'd to 10, so that my builds don't make the machine chug. However, fedora-review itself seems to run at normal priority, i.e. 0. The nice level of the invoking program should be passed on to the mock build. This is by no means a critical error; it'd just be nice if it was fixed. I really appreciate fedora-review's automatic checking of package-review issues!
fedora-review itself doesn't touch nice levels in any way. $ nice -19 fedora-review -b 995025 & ... $ ps -C mock -o pid,comm,nice PID COMMAND NI 22181 mock 19 If you use renice & combination of nested shells (such as midnight commander) then renice will not work as expected but that's nothing to do with fedora-review. None of child processes will be affected by renice that happens after fork.
No, I mean "renice" as in: $ renice 10 $$ $ fedora-review ...
Again, fedora-review does not touch nice level in any way. $ nice 0 $ renice 10 -p $$ 1023 (process ID) old priority 0, new priority 10 w0rm@so-f19 ~ $ fedora-review -b 995025 INFO: Processing bugzilla bug: 995025 INFO: Getting .spec and .srpm Urls from : 995025 INFO: --> SRPM url: http://msimacek.fedorapeople.org/rnv-1.7.11-5.fc19.src.rpm INFO: --> Spec url: http://msimacek.fedorapeople.org/rnv.spec ... # different terminal $ ps -C fedora-review -o pid,comm,nice PID COMMAND NI 30878 fedora-review 10 I suggest you double check your shell settings and verify that other programs are unaffected