On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 04:59:09PM +0100, Ragnar Kj�rstad wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 04:32:26PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > > One thing that could really improve system performance would be something like > > "nice" but for disk IO. > > Yes, that would be very nice :) > > Preferably it should use scheduling priority directly, so one doesn't > have to set a seperate value / use a seperate utility.
BTW: In the later (2.4.19 are so) kernels (I'm not if it was with the pre-empt patches or not), I've noticed that the nice (especially negative values) make a significant difference in the I/O bandwidth of the applications (especially mostly sequencial access) Perhaps test a "nice find /" and/or a "nice -20 pop3d" GReetz Hendrik
