Re: Smoothing disk I/O

2006-11-18 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 06:24:35PM -0500, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > FYI, it looks like ionice has been included in the sid version of > schedutils (v1.5.x). Tried it. Yes, that seems to do the trick. Thanks for the pointer. -- Unabashedly littering the information superhighway with detritus like t

Re: Smoothing disk I/O

2006-11-18 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 14:00 -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > Is there a mechanism for smoothing disk I/O in a similar fashion using > > nice to smooth CPU usage? I often find that certain disk-intensive tasks > > put the system into

Re: Smoothing disk I/O

2006-11-18 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 14:00 -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > Is there a mechanism for smoothing disk I/O in a similar fashion using > nice to smooth CPU usage? I often find that certain disk-intensive tasks > put the system into high wait-state load averages, and system > performanc

Smoothing disk I/O

2006-11-18 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Is there a mechanism for smoothing disk I/O in a similar fashion using nice to smooth CPU usage? I often find that certain disk-intensive tasks put the system into high wait-state load averages, and system performance as a whole suffers. Nicing the process doesn't really help, as the system