On Thursday 04 February 2010 01:44:15 Ted Unangst wrote: > I haven't really solved the problem I want to solve, but was able to whip > this up pretty quickly. Basically, it's just a wrapper that runs a > command and then starves it from running. disknice is a misnomer, it also > gets starved from cpu, but at the current time the only way to slow down a > process's io is to stop it. Not a complete solution, but it will slow > down a large tar job to the point where other programs have plenty of time > to get their requests in. The sleep ratios should be tunable, aren't. > > > time disknice md5 -t
I'm definitely going to play with this. To retard a process might be a better word, but might raise objections, so arrest, bridle or moderate might be better? --STeve Andre'
