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