On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Joey Hess <[email protected]> wrote: > Felipe Sateler wrote: >> I've been thinking, could git-annex nice and ionice itself? I'm mostly >> a dummy user here, git-annex autostarts on boot, so I can't start it >> niced myself. This would also help with large annexes on slow drives. > > Can you get me the ionice command line which works without root? > It should be easy to make git annex autostart use ionice since > it runs a new git-annex command. I'm not sure about nice though; this is > an interactive process when used with the webapp, and it may not be > appropriate to lower its nice level.
According to the ionice man page, since linux 2.6.25 the Idle priority class can be assigned by non-root users. "ionice -c 3 <command>" seems to work as advertised. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
