On Sonntag, 8. Juni 2008, Thomas Pedersen wrote: > Michal 'vorner' Vaner skrev: > > Hello > > > > On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:53:12AM +0200, Thomas Pedersen wrote: > >> I'm running a few processes in a cron-job, which makes the harddisk > >> quiet busy, like the emerge --sync command. > >> I know it's possible to nice them to use less CPU power, but is there a > >> similar approach for reading/writing to the disk? > > > > I heard of tool called ionice, which does exactly this. AFAIK it needs a > > kernel patch. > > Knowing the name of what you're looking for sure helps... > ionice is already installed by the lastest util-linux > It seems to require the CFQ I/O scheduler, anyone know if it's a big > disadvantage to run this scheduler instead of the Anticipatory ??? > ...and does anyone know if this works in a default stable Gentoo > installation??
from my experience CFQ is A LOT better than anticipatory on a desktop. And why shouldn't it work? -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Even with its numerical advantage removed, the Empire would still squash the Federation like a bug. Accept it. -Michael Wong -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
