Re: tar -> unresponsive machine

["Morel Bérenger" <berenger.morel@neutralite.org>]

Le Jeu 28 février 2013 19:22, Vincent Lefevre a écrit :
> But isn't it possible to lower the priority automatically (without
> an additional command like ionice) when a process takes all the I/O
> resources. Perhaps this isn't clear, but what I mean is that a process
> shouldn't take constantly all the resources for itself. I expect the
> resources to be more or less equitably shared (which is not what
> best-effort does, as described in the ionice(1) man page).

I think (but it is maybe wrong) that maybe you can recompile the kernel
and change the preemption model.