Re: Smoothing disk I/O
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 high wait-state load averages, and system
> > performance as a whole suffers.
[ . . . ]
> In SUSE 10.1 there's a command /usr/bin/ionice in the util-linux
> package. I just checked, sarge doesn't have it. The util-linux package
> in SUSE has many more commands, so I'm not sure if it's an alternative
> version or if just more options are enabled at compile time.
FYI, it looks like ionice has been included in the sid version of
schedutils (v1.5.x).
-- Brad
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