On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 05:17:31PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > Hoi Guus, > > > > Recent util-linuxes [as found at > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/testing/ ] include a tool > > > called ionice which can be used to control the priority wrt reading from > > > disk. > > > > > > Schedutils seems to be the right package to include this in. > > > > Not any more, see bug #322883. > > I disagree. > > There has been no activity on the mentioned bug, and I don't expect that > to happen before the release. Which is not a problem per se, apart from > the fact that due to both schedutils and util-linux do not provide > ionice, so Debian is without ionice for Etch. > > I think a reasonable way to deal with this is to upgrade schedutils to > the last released upstream, 1.5.0. Actually, the only change is the > adding of this binary, so it's a pretty low risk upgrade.
Yes, that's the way to go. However, last time I checked, ionice only
worked on 3 architectures. Maybe the one in util-linux's latest upstream
version is better, and has to be backported.
> I agree with you that merging with util-linux is the best solution in
> the long term, but let's get schedutils at least to the most recent
> version until that happens.
>
> (btw I'm happy to NMU this change if you don't have the time - let me
> know)
I don't know when I have time, so just to be on the safe side, go ahead
and NMU it.
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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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