Michal 'vorner' Vaner skrev:
Hello
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:53:12AM +0200, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
I'm running a few processes in a cron-job, which makes the harddisk quiet
busy, like the emerge --sync command.
I know it's possible to nice them to use less CPU power, but is there a
similar approach for reading/writing to the disk?
I heard of tool called ionice, which does exactly this. AFAIK it needs a
kernel patch.
Knowing the name of what you're looking for sure helps...
ionice is already installed by the lastest util-linux
It seems to require the CFQ I/O scheduler, anyone know if it's a big
disadvantage to run this scheduler instead of the Anticipatory ???
...and does anyone know if this works in a default stable Gentoo
installation??
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