Is there a way to prioritize disk operations ?

2013-01-15 Thread Yuri
Currently one can set nice value to the process. But it only affects the CPU scheduling, so if this process is CPU bound it would yield to others. What if the process is disk-bound, like some backup operations? The backup copying large disk seriously affects performance of all other apps

Re: Is there a way to prioritize disk operations ?

2013-01-15 Thread Freddie Cash
man gsched On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: Currently one can set nice value to the process. But it only affects the CPU scheduling, so if this process is CPU bound it would yield to others. What if the process is disk-bound, like some backup operations? The