> On May 7, 2018, at 11:50 PM, Ayappan P2 <ayappap2(at)in(dot)ibm(dot)com> wrote:
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> We are doing "renice" on the main Postgresql process to give higher scheduling priority because other critical operations depends on the database.
> You are saying that the database processes take longer to relinquish their resources and we won't achieve anything out of renice, So i assume renice of the database processes is not at all required ?
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> Thanks
> Ayappan P
>
Yes, if you make a db process nicer than the db takes longer to answer your queries. If the goal is to keep the load down on the db, that is usually going to be counterproductive.