On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:29:22AM +0200, Erez D wrote: > hi > > i need help in solving a problem: > > i have few diskio consuming processes which i want to run in the bg (i.e. > low priority) > and some other that access my computer via nfs. > > but thease processes cause other process to operate very poorly > ( for example: cursor stalls in vi for few seconds once in a while, even > when not using disk) > i tryed using nice, but this seems only to effect cpu usage and not disk > > anyone knows of a way to somthing similiar to 'nice' but for diskio ?
Short answer - no. Longer answer - you need QoS for IO. nice helps in a roundabout way, but isn't very useful. Check out ABISS, http://abiss.sourceforge.net/. Also, which kernel are you using? later kernels generally deal with interactivity in the face of IO (which is what you're describing) better. Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
