From dbd6ea7f63ef0d1eb68c142d2da9cda57ac33c93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:14:03 +0000
Subject: adding daemonNiceLevel option. running biulds with niceness 0 can be
 annoying

svn path=/nixos/branches/modular-nixos/; revision=16420
---
 modules/services/misc/nix-daemon.nix | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'modules')

diff --git a/modules/services/misc/nix-daemon.nix b/modules/services/misc/nix-daemon.nix
index b8911a8cea3..f3c749ff480 100644
--- a/modules/services/misc/nix-daemon.nix
+++ b/modules/services/misc/nix-daemon.nix
@@ -63,6 +63,15 @@ let
         ";
       };
 
+
+      daemonNiceLevel = mkOption {
+        default = 2;
+        description = "
+          nix dameon process priority. This priority propagates to build processes.
+          0 is default unix process priority. 20 is lowest.
+        ";
+      };
+
       buildMachines = mkOption {
         example = [
           { hostName = "voila.labs.cs.uu.nl";
@@ -245,7 +254,7 @@ in
         ''
           export PATH=${if config.nix.distributedBuilds then "${pkgs.openssh}/bin:" else ""}${pkgs.openssl}/bin:${nix}/bin:$PATH
           ${config.nix.envVars}
-          exec ${nix}/bin/nix-worker --daemon > /dev/null 2>&1
+          exec nice -n ${builtins.toString config.nix.daemonNiceLevel} ${nix}/bin/nix-worker --daemon > /dev/null 2>&1
         '';
     };
 
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