Make the record and playback scripts configuable to adjust CPU load of processing recordings

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For a BigBlueButton server, when it's processing a recording with videos, it 
runs ffmpeg, which can fully use the one core of the CPU.

Investigate using nice to run this at a lower CPU priority to minimize the 
impact on the BigBlueButton server.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ffdixon@gmail.com on 9 Jan 2014 at 6:00

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Similarly, if BigBlueButton is running on a very fast server, the administrator 
may want to increase the CPU usage by the record and playback scripts.

Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 13 Jan 2014 at 9:20

• Changed title: Make the record and playback scripts configuable to adjust CPU load of processing recordings

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Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 13 Jan 2014 at 9:21

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We've now edited the init script for the recording processing to run it with 
"nice 20" cpu and "idle" disk priority, to ensure that recording processing 
doesn't affect live sessions by default.

If you have a very fast server, or are doing recording processing on a 
different server, you can just change or remove these values in the init script.

Original comment by calvin.walton@kepstin.ca on 12 Nov 2014 at 1:39

• Changed state: Fixed

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What files should I change so that the recording process can use all of my 
server cpu, can you explain in detail,

thanks before

Original comment by area47.i...@gmail.com on 24 Dec 2014 at 2:05