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Say, I start a process as follows (just an example of a daemon):

/usr/bin/nice --10 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -DSSL

Would this aversely affect overall FreeBSD (4.10) performance
when the daemon is idle? Or only when it actually starts
doing something?

Thanks,

- Mark