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Shell script for monit to launch dropbox daemon with ionice idle priority and cpu limit 20%
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dropbox-monit
check process dropbox with pidfile /home/username/.dropbox/dropbox.pid
start program = "/home/username/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd-nice"
as uid username and gid username
stop program = "bin/bash -c '/bin/kill -9 `cat /home/username/.dropbox/dropbox.pid`'"
as uid username and gid username
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dropboxd-nice
#!/bin/sh
ionice -c 3 /home/username/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd &
sleep 4
cpulimit -b -e dropbox -l 20 -z
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