On 3/12/2010 3:21 AM, bacula-de...@catcons.co.uk wrote: > Hello :-) > > Item: Add nice and ionice facilities. > > Origin: Charles, bacula-devel ||| catcons.co.uk > Date: 12 March 2010 > Status: ? > > What: Add a ./configure option to prefix the sd and fd daemon > initialisation commands with nice and ionice. > > Why: When Bacula is run on a workstation, as opposed to a > dedicated backup server, interactive response is > severely degraded when a backup is running. Running the > sd and fd processes with suitable nice and ionice values > would avoid this. > > Notes: A suitable prefix to the daemon initialisation commands > would be: > nice -n 19 ionice -c2 -n7
FYI: nice(1) exists on FreeBSD. I don't see an ionice on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SUSE, HP-UX, RedHat, or SunOS. I did find it on CentOS. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
