nix-daemon: Run under the default nice level

Running at a low priority is generally bad since it runs the risk of
priority inversions, etc.  It's really the builders that should run
under a different priority (e.g. in their own cgroup).

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/modules/services/misc/nix-daemon.nix b/modules/services/misc/nix-daemon.nix
index 3296eff041b..7a7462ecb39 100644
--- a/modules/services/misc/nix-daemon.nix
+++ b/modules/services/misc/nix-daemon.nix
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ in
       };
 
       daemonNiceLevel = mkOption {
-        default = 10;
+        default = 0;
         description = "
           Nix daemon process priority. This priority propagates to build processes.
           0 is the default Unix process priority, 20 is the lowest.
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ in
       };
 
       daemonIONiceLevel = mkOption {
-        default = 7;
+        default = 0;
         description = "
           Nix daemon process I/O priority. This priority propagates to build processes.
           0 is the default Unix process I/O priority, 7 is the lowest.