On 27/11/2010, at 4:29pm, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> ...
> The way I solved the I/O problems is to use the sys-kernel/ck-sources kernel
> (2.6.36-r3). It shouldn't be necessary to use ionice and schedtool for most
> tasks, but I use it for portage with this in make.conf:
>
> PORTAGE_NICENESS=19
> PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="sh -c \"schedtool -D \${PID}; ionice -c 3 -p
> \${PID}\""
>
> But you can use this method for everything you want. Running something with
> nice -19, ionice -c3 and schedtool -D should make it pretty much invisible;
> it should have zero impact on interactivity. At least that's the case here
> when using sys-kernel/ck-sources.
Does using the ck-sources kernel reduce the necessity to use ionice?
For some reason I find myself a little reluctant to mess with the CFQ group
scheduling.
Stroller.
