On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 05:08:24PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 17:33 +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: ... > So you are using CPU throttling to solve I/O contention? This is an > even worse idea. No, it's the other way round: the process is throttled, and the reduced I/O and CPU usage are both the (desired) consequence. > > > It turned out to be incredibly useful. > > That's nice, but please don't present this as more than a site-specific > hack. FWIW, I've added ionice and (re)nice compatibility options - further steps will be implementing command timeouts (timeout(1)-like). While far from a swiss army knife of process control, I think this is still a nice little utility. Best, -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabík http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
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