From 8edd0456a3a85341ad429a887691487beed3262c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MadCamel <madcamel@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 09:09:07 -0500
Subject: Lower process priority when saving login/char databases

In the event of CPU contention this will make forked database writes
take a back-seat to the actual running server.
---
 src/login/login.cpp | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/login')

diff --git a/src/login/login.cpp b/src/login/login.cpp
index ea58669..b21b028 100644
--- a/src/login/login.cpp
+++ b/src/login/login.cpp
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 #include <netdb.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 
+#include <sys/resource.h>
+
 #include <cstdlib>
 #include <cstring>
 #include <ctime>
@@ -652,6 +654,10 @@ void check_auth_sync(TimerData *, tick_t)
     if ((pid = fork()) > 0)
         return;
 
+    // If we're a child, run as a lower priority process
+    if (pid == 0)
+        setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, getpid(), 10);
+
     mmo_auth_sync();
 
     // If we're a child we should suicide now.
-- 
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