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From: Holger Hoffstaette <holger@×××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk priority
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:05:29
Message-Id: pan.2008.06.08.10.47.18.562500@wizards.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Harddisk priority by Michal 'vorner' Vaner
1 On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:01:32 +0200, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
2
3 > Hello
4 >
5 > On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:53:12AM +0200, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
6 >> I'm running a few processes in a cron-job, which makes the harddisk
7 >> quiet busy, like the emerge --sync command. I know it's possible to nice
8 >> them to use less CPU power, but is there a similar approach for
9 >> reading/writing to the disk?
10 >
11 > I heard of tool called ionice, which does exactly this. AFAIK it needs a
12 > kernel patch.
13
14 ionice is part of util-linux and does not need a kernel patch.
15
16 -h
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