How could I 'nice' Capistrano deployment ?

Question

How could I set a nice indice on cap:deploy ? I want the remote server nice the cp commands like that : nice -n 19 cp ...

Thenk you

Answer 1

Not sure about cp. Don't you use an SCM?

I tried with my setup (I use subversion) and this seems to work. In deploy.rb, add:

set :scm_command, "nice -19 svn"

It seems somewhat more difficult if you don't use an SCM, you'll have to overload checkout() in deploy/scm/none.rb.