nicedaemon

A (daemon) program which is able to change niceness and CPU affinity of a process based on a set of rules defined in a config file.

Changing CPU affinity to a single CPU ("sticking" a process to a CPU) can be benefitial for the performance of some 32 bit software (especially when playing games using wine).

Compiling

make

Installation

make install

Configuration

Make any adjustments you need in /etc/nicedaemon.conf

Features

• Allows matching processes by their command name (/proc/pid/comm) or path.
• Event-driven: nicedaemon doesn't need to iterate over all running processes to detect new ones.