ansible-role-reniced

This Ansible role configures reniced on Debian and Ubuntu based operating systems.

Customizations

When reniced_conf is defined, it is used as the configuration content.

Include the role using:

- name: Import role reniced
  when: ansible_os_family == "Debian"
  ansible.builtin.import_role:
    name: reniced

Variables:

reniced_conf: |
  # high prio network services
  0 ^apache
  0 ^nfsd
  0 ^ntpd
  0 ^openvpn
  0 ^portmap
  0 ^ppp
  0 ^rpc.
  0 ^sshd

  # medium prio network services
  5 ^inn$
  5 ^mysqld

  # low prio network services
  15i ^amavisd-new
  15i ^clamd
  15 ^controlchan
  15 ^exim4
  15 ^freshclam
  15 ^innwatch
  12 ^mailman
  15 ^rc.news
  15i ^spamd

  # long running user processes (screen)
  3 ^irssi

  # test OOM settings
  o1 bash

Author and license

Copyright (C) 2024-2025 James Cherti.

Distributed under terms of the MIT license.

Links

• ansible-role-reniced @GitHub