On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:01:32 +0200, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > 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.
ionice is part of util-linux and does not need a kernel patch. -h -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
