On Tue, 03 Mar 2015, Jacek Politowski wrote: > On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 08:29:53PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > >I can run du, but that takes ages, and has a performance impact. > > With "idle" I/O scheduler class (set with ionice) does it still have > a big performance impact?
This is basically what I do myself; I run 'nice -n 19 ionice -c 3 du -a;' occasionally and feed the output into sort -n. Granted, this is only on about 1T of data, but the number of files are probably similar. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own. I resign. -- Patrick McGoohan as Number 6 in "The Prisoner" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150303203038.gb8...@rzlab.ucr.edu
