On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:02:20 +0100, Craig Ringer <cr...@postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:
> Try setting the high priority job to -c1 (realtime) and the bacula fd to > -c3 (idle) priority. Bacula is already at -c3, I'm not supposed to touch the other app, unfortunately. Thanks for your other suggestions, I'll forward those to the responsible parties as well. > I landed up having to hack the sources of the driver for my 3Ware > Escalade 8500-8 to get decent I/O latency, since the driver queued up to > 256 (!!) requests internally. This prevented Linux from pre-empting > already issued I/O with higher priority new I/O requests. As much as I would like to do this kind of thing I have more pressing matters occupying my time :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users