On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:31:18PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From: Steve Adeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > also is there anything that can limit drive use in a similar way as nice > > can > > limit cpu usage? > I don't see why you shoudln't be able to use nice against the cp > command (or whatever means you're using to transfer the data).
Using nice wouldn't have any effect on tasks that are primarily i/o bound as they miss so many scheduling cycles while in the wait-state that they would be candidates for scheduling just about every time the drive finishes a block transfer. -- "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." - Sinclair Lewis (1935) _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
