On Wednesday 03 June 2009 01:05:13 Steve Bertrand wrote:
What is the best way to set priority on my task in order to ensure it
completes as quickly as possible, but does not cause a situation where
other programs and their children can't respond?
You may want to consider the fact that
Hi everyone,
I'm attempting to mysqldump a database on a box that is hovering near
max CPU and mem usage.
When I run the command, other critical programs fail to respond causing
an 'outage-like' situation.
Normally, this is a time-of-day task and will run happily later into the
night, but I
Hi Steve
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm attempting to mysqldump a database on a box that is hovering near
max CPU and mem usage.
When I run the command, other critical programs fail to respond causing
an 'outage-like' situation.
When I run the command, other critical programs fail to respond causing
an 'outage-like' situation.
Normally, this is a time-of-day task and will run happily later into the
night, but I want to run it now.
What is the best way to set priority on my task in order to ensure it
completes as
Glen Barber wrote:
Hi Steve
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm attempting to mysqldump a database on a box that is hovering near
max CPU and mem usage.
When I run the command, other critical programs fail to respond causing
an
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Steve Bertrand wrote:
Glen Barber wrote:
Hi Steve
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm attempting to mysqldump a database on a box that is hovering near
max CPU and mem usage.
When I run the
Greg Larkin wrote:
Steve Bertrand wrote:
I'll have to play around a bit. Looking closer, it does appear to be a
disk I/O issue, but I figured that if I tried to prioritize the job, it
might ease-up on all system aspects.
I had the same situation here, and nice(1) wasn't cutting it for me.
Greg,
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote:
I had the same situation here, and nice(1) wasn't cutting it for me. I
finally switched to idprio(1):
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=idpriosourceid=opensearch
idprio 31 mysqldump .
will run only
On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:19:49 -0400
Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote:
I had the same situation here, and nice(1) wasn't cutting it for me.
I finally switched to idprio(1):
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=idpriosourceid=opensearch
idprio 31 mysqldump .
will run only when
