Bug#454677: selectable ionice values

2007-12-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2007-12-08 James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Might I suggest you also add a comment like this into locate-cron.daily? > Using IONICE_CLASS is a trade-off between locate database > consistency and friendliness to other processes. The nicer we are, > the less impact we have on system

Bug#454677: selectable ionice values

2007-12-08 Thread James Youngman
Might I suggest you also add a comment like this into locate-cron.daily? Using IONICE_CLASS is a trade-off between locate database consistency and friendliness to other processes. The nicer we are, the less impact we have on system performance when updating the database, because we generally sp

Bug#454677: selectable ionice values

2007-12-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2007-12-07 Kees Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:32:08PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> Thanks for the explanation. I have not got strong feelings about it >> either. Since nice-level is already configurable I would suggest to >> apply the patch but keep/change to I

Bug#454677: selectable ionice values

2007-12-07 Thread Kees Cook
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:32:08PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Thanks for the explanation. I have not got strong feelings about it > either. Since nice-level is already configurable I would suggest to > apply the patch but keep/change to IONICE_CLASS 3. Okay, sounds good. Here's the updated p

Bug#454677: selectable ionice values

2007-12-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2007-12-07 Kees Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 06:57:13PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] > > Why are you defaulting to IONICE_CLASS 2 instead of 3? How is this > > better? Is there some policy I am not aware of? > This was just because other tools that are starti

Bug#454677: selectable ionice values

2007-12-07 Thread Kees Cook
Hi Andreas, On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 06:57:13PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > I had seen that patch in Ubuntu but had disregarded it. I am not > perfectly sure about ionice syntax, but I think that > IONICE_CLASS 3 idle seems to be perfect for locate. I think the original author of the Ubuntu p

Bug#454677: selectable ionice values

2007-12-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2007-12-07 Kees Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: findutils > Version: 4.2.31-3 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Usertags: origin-ubuntu hardy ubuntu-patch > > Hello! This patch allows the ionice values to be configured from the local > customization file.

Bug#454677: selectable ionice values

2007-12-06 Thread Kees Cook
Package: findutils Version: 4.2.31-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: origin-ubuntu hardy ubuntu-patch Hello! This patch allows the ionice values to be configured from the local customization file. -- Kees Cook@outflux.ne