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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I agree IFF my assumptions and results are applicable to package installations. If you have a package installation I would prefer that you verify these results on such an installation since I mostly let my Master build do what it wants. I always build from Master, never use the packages.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Do we have to specify the –run runtime directory on the FS command line?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Do we have to specify the –temp files directory?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Right now the unit file for the package specifies none of those so I don’t know where FS would put its runtime and temp files.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>By the way, while testing the location of runtime directory for the PID file I noted that FS will create the ./run directory with the proper permissions and owner, then write the PID file in it on its own without systemd doing it. This happened without specifying anything about that on the command line and without the tmpfiles.d entry. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>But since the .deb package places files in the FHS locations this would be necessary, so your recent ticket that adds that applies. I omitted that from my Confluence instructions built from Master, FYI.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Please let me know how to proceed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bote<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Stanislav Sinyagin<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 06 September, 2015 06:00<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Freeswitch-users] FS priority<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Looks like another jira ticket is needed for Debian packaging.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sep 6, 2015 6:16 AM, "Anthony Minessale" <<a href="mailto:anthony.minessale@gmail.com">anthony.minessale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It's because FS changes the scheduler and enables some realtime threads when it can. If you have multiple cpu np and rp are the same. FS always needs root privs to change the platform parameters and nice level etc. The scheduler change is not possible if the shell is an unpriveledged user nor are a bunch of other things unless you carefully allowed them somehow as root before the shell started. So basically that is all expected behavior.<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>On Saturday, September 5, 2015, Bote Man <<a href="mailto:bote_radio@botecomm.com" target="_blank">bote_radio@botecomm.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Sorry, I did not use the utility named ‘runas’ I simply labeled the column that way and was trying to conserve character space in the header to get it to fit in a reasonable space.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Anyway, thanks to your post and some research I just changed my FS unit file to start FS as user root, but specified –u freeswitch –g freeswitch on the command line to FS, and changed the WorkingDirectory=/usr/local/freeswitch/bin (it had been set to ‘run’) and it’s doing the Right Thing, so that is what I will go with. I vaguely remember that FS can (should) start as root, then drops privileges to what is specified on the command line, so it looks like it is doing exactly that.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>‘top’ shows FS running as real and effective user ‘freeswitch’ with Priority=-2 and Nice=-10 so I am a happy camper.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If nobody on the FS core development team has any objection to this approach I will update the Confluence page for the systemd unit file for building from MASTER. The Debian packages have their own file locations.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/FreeSWITCH+1.6+Video#FreeSWITCH1.6Video-systemd" target="_blank">https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/FreeSWITCH+1.6+Video#FreeSWITCH1.6Video-systemd</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Any security concerns doing this?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bote</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Shaun Stokes<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 05 September, 2015 03:18<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Freeswitch-users] FS priority</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Are you using FreeSwitch to specify the user to runas or is this being done by systemd? </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>In FreeSwitch you use the -u argument to specify the user and the -g argument to specify the group, if you do this then I assume running the service as root should be ok providing you've given FreeSwitch an alternative user and group (in our environment we use the same for user and group).</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Shaun</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> Bote Man </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> 05 September 2015 04:28<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Freeswitch-users] FS priority</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>I'm not sure how much nice level matters compared to scheduler priority. I ran a series of tests to find out what Priority and Nice level are reported by the 'top' utility.<br><br>I ran the first 6 tests by using systemd to start FreeSWITCH, 3 times as user root with each of the FS priority flags, then 3 times as user freeswitch with each of the FS flags. Then I repeated that block of tests from the command line, 3 flags as root, 3 flags as freeswitch. You won't believe what happened next!<br><br>systemd starting FreeSWITCH as 'RUNAS' user with 'FLAG' command line priority flags to FS results in top showing priority 'PRI', nice level 'NICE' on a month-old install of Debian 8 on a bare metal Dell R320 server.<br><br>RUNAS FLAG PRI NICE<br>root -rp -2 -10<br>root -np 39 19<br>root -lp 39 19<br><br>fs -rp -2 19<br>fs -np 39 19<br>fs -lp 39 19<br><br>Run as root from command line<br>root -rp -2 -10<br>root -np 20 0<br>root -lp 39 19<br><br>Run as su=freeswitch from command line<br>fs -rp 20 0<br>fs -np 20 0<br>fs -lp 39 19</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Most processes show Priority of 20 so I assume that is considered "normal".</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>So it looks like the only way to get truly higher priority for a process is to run it as root, which I expected. Once the scheduler priority is at -2 (higher priority) I don't know whether the nice level even matters.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>For now, the systemd unit file that I posted on Confluence runs as the freeswitch user so even with the -rp flag to FreeSWITCH it gets niced down to 19 which is the lowest level available for nice. Does this matter?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Is there a serious security concern running FreeSWITCH as root?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Thanks.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Bote</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'>On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Bote Man <<a href="mailto:bote_radio@botecomm.com">bote_radio@botecomm.com</a>> wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Thanks for that. I was under the impression that systemd was throwing FreeSWITCH into the generic scheduling group and starving it of resources as a result, but when I manually ran ./freeswitch as root it still showed the same values.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Running FS manually with -np yielded pri=20 nice=0 and System Monitor reports priority "normal"</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Running FS manually with -rp yielded pri=-2 nice=-10 and System Monitor reports priority "very high", same results as when FS was started without any priority switch on the command line.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>BUT! When I start FS with systemd it maintains priority=-2 but nice all the way down to 19 which is why System Monitor reports "very low". This happens even with the -rp switch specified in the unit file.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>I don't know how scheduling priority and nice level interact on Debian, but it looks like I have a new research project for this weekend, assuming this is truly something to be concerned about. Or is it?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Thanks for the tips. I will report my findings to the list if I discover anything substantive.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'>Bote</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'>On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Shaun Stokes <<a href="mailto:shaun.stokes@itec-support.co.uk">shaun.stokes@itec-support.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Hi Bote, </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>I believe priority works in a similar way to metric (i.e. lower comes first), so -20 (most favorable scheduling) to +19 (least favorable scheduling).</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div style='border:dashed #2F6FAB 1.0pt;padding:12.0pt 12.0pt 12.0pt 12.0pt'><pre style='line-height:15.6pt;background:#F9F9F9'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black'>-rp -- enable high(realtime) priority settings</span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='line-height:15.6pt;background:#F9F9F9'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black'>-lp -- enable low priority settings</span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='line-height:15.6pt;background:#F9F9F9'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:black'>-np -- enable normal priority settings (system default)</span><o:p></o:p></pre></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Source: <a href="https://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Command_line" target="_blank">https://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Command_line</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Hope this helps.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Shaun</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org">freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org</a> [freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] on behalf of Bote Man [bote_radio@botecomm.com]<br><b>Sent:</b> 04 September 2015 15:54<br><b>To:</b> FreeSWITCH Users Help<br><b>Subject:</b> [Freeswitch-users] FS priority</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'>I’m trying to set the priority on a new FreeSWITCH installation built from master on Debian 8 running on bare metal. It is currently running at “very low” priority according to Resource Monitor in the GUI and ‘top’ reports FS is running at priority = -2 (that’s negative two) and nice = 19</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'>So with the way FreeSWITCH is now launched by systemd is it considered a service or a user application that is simply run in the background? </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'>This affects how systemd treats its control groups and priority and how I will go about troubleshooting this.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'><br>Thanks.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'>Bote</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:16.8pt'><span style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Anthony Minessale II <span style='font-family:"MS Mincho"'>♬</span> @anthmfs <span style='font-family:"MS Mincho"'>♬</span> @FreeSWITCH <span style='font-family:"MS Mincho"'>♬</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"MS Mincho"'>☞</span> <a href="http://freeswitch.org/" target="_blank">http://freeswitch.org/</a> <span style='font-family:"MS Mincho"'>☞</span> <a href="http://cluecon.com/" target="_blank">http://cluecon.com/</a> <span style='font-family:"MS Mincho"'>☞</span> <a href="http://twitter.com/FreeSWITCH" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/FreeSWITCH</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"MS Mincho"'>☞</span> <a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_blank">irc.freenode.net</a> #freeswitch <span style='font-family:"MS Mincho"'>☞</span> <u><a href="http://freeswitch.org/g+" target="_blank">http://freeswitch.org/g+</a></u><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>ClueCon Weekly Development Call <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"MS Mincho"'>☎</span> <a href="mailto:sip%3A888@conference.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">sip:888@conference.freeswitch.org</a> <span style='font-family:"MS Mincho"'>☎</span> <a href="tel:%2B19193869900" target="_blank">+19193869900</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XXgW34t40s" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:#1155CC'>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XXgW34t40s</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaDpGQuZDA" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaDpGQuZDA</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>_________________________________________________________________________<br>Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services:<br><a href="mailto:consulting@freeswitch.org">consulting@freeswitch.org</a><br><a href="http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com</a><br><br>Official FreeSWITCH Sites<br><a href="http://www.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitch.org</a><br><a href="http://confluence.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://confluence.freeswitch.org</a><br><a href="http://www.cluecon.com" target="_blank">http://www.cluecon.com</a><br><br>FreeSWITCH-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org">FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users" target="_blank">http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users</a><br>UNSUBSCRIBE:<a href="http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users" target="_blank">http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users</a><br><a href="http://www.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">http://www.freeswitch.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>