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El 2007-04-10 a las 23:09 +0400, Aaron Kulkis escribió:
> > Yes, I use ionice. But it is not very usefull, only root can use it. For
> > instance, I have to copy large files, and I'm not really interested in doing
> > it fast, rather to be able to keep working on something else at the same
> > time. So, I fire the copy, find out the pid, then as root I re-io-nice it.
> > That should not require root priviledges.
> >
> > But your idea of changing the scheduler for a whole device sounds curious.
> > I usually find kernel documents made for developpers to understand, much is
> > assumed to be known already by the reader. There is only one file that talks
> > about ionice, and not much.
>
> Why not just nice the copy command from the get go...
>
> i.e.
> $ nice cp /file/source/big /file/destination/copy/here
I do, but it's not "nice" enough
The disk is so busy for a long time when copying a half a gig single file
that the rest of the tasks are sluggish,
I'm not in a hurry over these operations, I just want to continue working
as usual.
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Saludos
Carlos E.R.
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