petique

petique adjusts nice, ionice and OOM adjust score of processes based on custom rules defined in a config file.

Configuration

Configuration is a TOML file consisting of independant rules:

[vlc]  # rule name, name is only significant to you
name = "vlc"  # regular expression, matches process name
nice = 10  # when rule is matched, sets nice of process to 10

# nice can go from -20 (most prioritary) to 19 (least prioritary)
# though only root can set negative values
# see `nice(1)` manual page

[borg]
exe = "/usr/bin/borg"  # regular expression, matches binary path
ionice = "idle"  # when rule is matched, sets ionice of process to "idle" mode

# ionice values can be "b1" to "b7" (best-effort, from more prioritary to least prioritary)
# or "idle" (even less prioritary than b7) or "rt" (real-time, high-priority, only for root user)
# see `ionice(1)` manual page

[firefox_tab]
cmdline = ".*firefox -contentproc.*"  # regular expression, matches full command line with args
oom_adj = 1000  # when rule is matched, sets oom adjust of process to 1000

# oom_adj can be from -1000 (immune against OOM-killer) to 1000 (more likely to be killed)
# see `choom(1)` manual page

Rules match processes based on their process name, binary or full command-line, and adjust nice, ionice or oom-adjust score.

Run petique --list to see all processes and their name, exe, cmdline. This is handy for writing rules patterns.

Usage

petique [-n | --dry-run] [-v | --verbose] [--rule NAME] [--config FILE]