On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 14:00 -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > Is there a mechanism for smoothing disk I/O in a similar fashion using > > nice to smooth CPU usage? I often find that certain disk-intensive tasks > > put the system into high wait-state load averages, and system > > performance as a whole suffers. [ . . . ] > In SUSE 10.1 there's a command /usr/bin/ionice in the util-linux > package. I just checked, sarge doesn't have it. The util-linux package > in SUSE has many more commands, so I'm not sure if it's an alternative > version or if just more options are enabled at compile time.
FYI, it looks like ionice has been included in the sid version of schedutils (v1.5.x). -- Brad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
