diff --git a/admin/judges_sa_launcher.php b/admin/judges_sa_launcher.php
index f995bc9..8832481 100644
--- a/admin/judges_sa_launcher.php
+++ b/admin/judges_sa_launcher.php
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?
-exec("php judges_sa.php >/dev/null 2>&1 &");
+exec("nice php judges_sa.php >/dev/null 2>&1 &");
 usleep(1000000); // 1 second to allow the judges_sa to update the % status to 0% otherwise the status page will think its not running if it gets there too soon
 header("Location: judges_scheduler_status.php");
 ?>