Changing nice level for transmission-daemon
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