feat(colcon-build): use nice command to not overuse resources #308
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Description
nice
is part of GNU coreutils, let's you run a program with modified scheduling priority.Comes bundled in the our Ubuntu containers.
This PR aims to utilize it to prevent
colcon build
from overusing the runner resources.man page
I set the default to be 19 in this PR.
Original default was 10.
Related PR:
Failure example for a runner due to over-usage of a machine during colcon build:
https://github.com/autowarefoundation/autoware.universe/actions/runs/10419516744/attempts/1
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Interface changes
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