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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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BOFH Excuse #430: |
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Mouse has out-of-cheese-error |
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Michal 'vorner' Vaner |
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