Raspberry Pi has rather limited CPU power, so I wanted to reduce the priority of the transmission-daemon.
To do that I found that we can modify /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon script to add the --nicelevel option as below:
start_daemon () {
if [ $ENABLE_DAEMON != 1 ]; then
log_progress_msg "(disabled)"
log_end_msg 255 || true
else
start-stop-daemon --start \
--nicelevel 5 \
--chuid $USER \
$START_STOP_OPTIONS \
--exec $DAEMON -- $OPTIONS || log_end_msg $?
log_end_msg 0
fi
}
Reference: http://man.he.net/man8/start-stop-daemon
