diff --git a/docker/conf/services.d/wpcron/run b/docker/conf/services.d/wpcron/run
index 393a42f589c9d939e79d16071190dffe52b8800f..efae14512be3c8824a56a235f1149c43e14b6bc5 100755
--- a/docker/conf/services.d/wpcron/run
+++ b/docker/conf/services.d/wpcron/run
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
 # The "run-cron" execution takes a few minutes, so the actual period
 # comess out at something closer to 10 minutes.
 export BATCH_SIZE=300
-exec every 300 on-local-blogs run-cron >/dev/null
+exec nice ionice -c 3 every 300 on-local-blogs run-cron >/dev/null