Hi, maybe you should take a look at the *cpulimit* package.
greetings, vitaminx 2009/7/2 Jordi Moles Blanco <jo...@cdmon.com> > hi everyone, > > let's say i want to create an .img file of 50GB with "dd" command. After > that, i will give it a format with mkfs.ext3. > > The problem is that while "dd" is running I'm not able to do anything else > on the machine, not even ssh in, it just consumes all the available > resources, and as I'm creating a 50GB image, i can't access the machine for > several minutes. > > I've tried to use "nice" command, giving the "dd" process the lowest > possible priority, 19. The thing is that the whole thing performs better, i > can establish ssh connection. However, i can't do much when I'm in it, > everything is so slow. > > I've also read some documentation about "limit/ulimit" command, but i fail > to see how i can use it successfully for this matter. > > I would like to run dd and let it use, for example, only 10% of the CPU > time or 30% of the total amount of memory. Is that possible? I'm not > looking for a "general" process limit for the whole system, only for a > particular process. > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- www ... http://www.callistix.net/ mail ... vitam...@callistix.net irc ... #chezpaeule @ euirc mud ... vitaminx @ aardmud
