Joe wrote... > This is way beyond my level of expertise, but wouldn't something like > ionice help with that?
Although I'm not Marian, probably not. The ionice program does a reasonable good job when it's about prioritizing read operation. The context makes me guess it's rather about writing. > Also, check out: > > 2 more pipe utilities > > Viewer & throttle > http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml > > Throttle - limits bandwidth of a pipe - for use with network transfers > http://linux.die.net/man/1/throttle The pv utility is way to little known and served me well in many situations, and throttle seems to do quite the same. Both however seem to do quite the same thing rsync's --bwlimit option does, while the latter is more sophisticated. It the issue is the one I have in mind (which is one I constantly suffer from), the actual problem is the dirty buffer writeback strategy, deep in the Linux kernel. Christoph -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
