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Subject: Periodic tasks are not nice
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Up late and found my system to be rather sluggish.

Poked around and found this running:

/usr/local/etc/periodic/security/460.pkg-checksum

top shows it is -not- nice'd.

Shouldn't all these sorts of background taks be nice'd?