Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to improve interactivity with heavy disk activity?

[Stroller]

On 27/11/2010, at 4:29pm, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
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> The way I solved the I/O problems is to use the sys-kernel/ck-sources kernel (2.6.36-r3).  It shouldn't be necessary to use ionice and schedtool for most tasks, but I use it for portage with this in make.conf:
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> PORTAGE_NICENESS=19
> PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="sh -c \"schedtool -D \${PID}; ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}\""
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> But you can use this method for everything you want.  Running something with nice -19, ionice -c3 and schedtool -D should make it pretty much invisible; it should have zero impact on interactivity.  At least that's the case here when using sys-kernel/ck-sources.

Does using the ck-sources kernel reduce the necessity to use ionice?

For some reason I find myself a little reluctant to mess with the CFQ group scheduling.

Stroller.