src: add Nice clause to set the nice value

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

4 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/stats/conntrackd.conf b/doc/stats/conntrackd.conf
index 889d387..54e2322 100644
--- a/doc/stats/conntrackd.conf
+++ b/doc/stats/conntrackd.conf
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@
 #
 General {
 	#
+	# Set the nice value of the daemon. This value goes from -20
+	# (most favorable scheduling) to 19 (least favorable). Using a
+	# negative value reduces the chances to lose state-change events.
+	# Default is 0. See man nice(1) for more information.
+	#
+	Nice -1
+
+	#
 	# Number of buckets in the caches: hash table
 	#
 	HashSize 8192
diff --git a/doc/sync/alarm/conntrackd.conf b/doc/sync/alarm/conntrackd.conf
index 5e44d0d..aa87541 100644
--- a/doc/sync/alarm/conntrackd.conf
+++ b/doc/sync/alarm/conntrackd.conf
@@ -135,6 +135,14 @@ Sync {
 #
 General {
 	#
+	# Set the nice value of the daemon, this value goes from -20
+	# (most favorable scheduling) to 19 (least favorable). Using a
+	# negative value reduces the chances to lose state-change events.
+	# Default is 0. See man nice(1) for more information.
+	#
+	Nice -1
+
+	#
 	# Number of buckets in the cache hashtable. The bigger it is,
 	# the closer it gets to O(1) at the cost of consuming more memory.
 	# Read some documents about tuning hashtables for further reference.
diff --git a/doc/sync/ftfw/conntrackd.conf b/doc/sync/ftfw/conntrackd.conf
index 92cd9d1..a3f42a2 100644
--- a/doc/sync/ftfw/conntrackd.conf
+++ b/doc/sync/ftfw/conntrackd.conf
@@ -144,6 +144,14 @@ Sync {
 #
 General {
 	#
+	# Set the nice value of the daemon, this value goes from -20
+	# (most favorable scheduling) to 19 (least favorable). Using a
+	# negative value reduces the chances to lose state-change events.
+	# Default is 0. See man nice(1) for more information.
+	#
+	Nice -1
+
+	#
 	# Number of buckets in the cache hashtable. The bigger it is,
 	# the closer it gets to O(1) at the cost of consuming more memory.
 	# Read some documents about tuning hashtables for further reference.
diff --git a/doc/sync/notrack/conntrackd.conf b/doc/sync/notrack/conntrackd.conf
index c64291b..755b08b 100644
--- a/doc/sync/notrack/conntrackd.conf
+++ b/doc/sync/notrack/conntrackd.conf
@@ -125,6 +125,14 @@ Sync {
 #
 General {
 	#
+	# Set the nice value of the daemon, this value goes from -20
+	# (most favorable scheduling) to 19 (least favorable). Using a
+	# negative value reduces the chances to lose state-change events.
+	# Default is 0. See man nice(1) for more information.
+	#
+	Nice -1
+
+	#
 	# Number of buckets in the cache hashtable. The bigger it is,
 	# the closer it gets to O(1) at the cost of consuming more memory.
 	# Read some documents about tuning hashtables for further reference.