Re: Making nice niser for system hogging programs

[Marc Perkel]

Con Kolivas wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:26, Marc Perkel wrote:
>  
>
> > Just a thought -----
> >
> > Programs like cp -a /bigdir /backup and rsync usually bring the server
> > to a crawl no matter how much "nice" you put on them. Is there any way
> > to make "nice" smarter in that it limits io as well as processor usage?
> > If cp and rsyne ran a little slower IO wise then everything else could
> > run too.
> >    
>
> The latest cfq io scheduler supports io nice levels. By default it links the 
> io nice levels to the cpu nice levels so if you use cfq and set your file 
> commands nice 19 they will use as little io priority as possible. Note this 
> only works on the read side but that makes a dramatic difference already.
>
> Cheers
> Con
>  

Kewl - so - what version is it in?


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