Bug#882318: github-backup: option to limit concurrent repo updates

2017-11-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2017-11-21 at 16:21 +, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > Fortunately this is reasonably easy to tickle at that level. > > $ ionice -c 3 github-backup I use this and it doesn't seem to help at all: nice -n 19 ionice -c 3 nocache I'll try to investigate some more. > or the somewhat

Bug#882318: github-backup: option to limit concurrent repo updates

2017-11-21 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
As a matter of separation of concerns bandwidth limits really belongs in the OS, which is responsible for the allocation of access to resources by individual processes, and for enforcing any relevant policy thereof. Fortunately this is reasonably easy to tickle at that level. Either $ ionice -c 3

Bug#882318: github-backup: option to limit concurrent repo updates

2017-11-21 Thread Paul Wise
Package: github-backup Version: 1.20170301-2 Severity: wishlist For folks on spinning rust who are backing up a lot of repositories, github-backup causes the system to grind to a halt. It would be nice to have an option to limit this to a specific number of repositories instead of the number