Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 17:45, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HDD I/O and UI responsiveness':
I read somewhere that they are trying to 'nice' the drive usage like
they do the CPU.  That may help if you can find it and enable it.  I
think it is in some of the very new kernels if I read it correctly.
Sorry, I didn't bookmark it.  < slaps hand >

There's the ionice utility provided by...
<Running equery>
...sys-process/schedutils.

Isn't this just masking the problem?

I don't see the CPU pegged, so why should other applications be unresponsive?

--- Vladimir
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