CentOS 5.7 Default priority on -20

[Selbie]

Dear linuxforums,

I have an strange bug on my linux,

[root]# su user
bash-3.2$ nice
-20

For some reason all my users on the system get priority -20.
i checked Google already but it only tells me how to change with
nice or renice.

I didn't edited my limits.conf file.

Any idea's ?

Greets,
Selbie

[atreyu]

Do you have any nice commands in your profiles? e.g.:

grep nice /etc/profile.d/*

or in any other place that is sourced by all users logging in? Does it happen with root, too?

[Rubberman]

Do you have any nice commands in your profiles? e.g.:

grep nice /etc/profile.d/*

or in any other place that is sourced by all users logging in? Does it happen with root, too?

Yes. The default nice setting should be 0 (zero). A nice setting of -20 is a very high priority escalation, which should only happen if the process tree is real-time (I think).

[Selbie]

Do you have any nice commands in your profiles? e.g.:

grep nice /etc/profile.d/*

or in any other place that is sourced by all users logging in? Does it happen with root, too?

I did the command, but nothing returned.
It happens on all users on the system, including root.

Once i changed limits.conf and added this code:

*               soft    priority            0

All returned to normal, but i never had this in my limits.conf.
Before this issue, i never changed anything in it.

Is there any clue which could cause this ?

[Rubberman]

I did the command, but nothing returned.
It happens on all users on the system, including root.

Once i changed limits.conf and added this code:

*               soft    priority            0

All returned to normal, but i never had this in my limits.conf.
Before this issue, i never changed anything in it.

Is there any clue which could cause this ?

I haven't seen it either. Perhaps it could be a bug in the 5.7 installation scripts/files? I haven't tried 5.7 myself - skipped from 5.6 to 6.0 myself. Question for the community: has anyone else running 5.7 seen this?