[Maria-discuss] mariadb runs at lowest priority (nice -n 19)

Hi, I just noticed that all our MariaDB 5.2 servers show the same: $ ps -eo ni,comm |grep mysql 9 mysqld_safe 19 mysql_isam_spac <defunct> 19 mysqld While servers with Oracle MySQL are at nice -n 0 I tried setting niceness=-10 in /usr/bin/mysqld_safe but with no effect. Is there a reason to run MariaDB at the lowest possible priority and is there a way to change that?