Limiting disk-io

2000-12-21 Thread Erik Tews
Hi I am going to create a shell-server for a networking-meeting with cd-writer. Usually, this is not a problem, but I would like to know if there are any kernel-patches which can limit the io-bandwidth for a user to the harddisk so that a user which is using the cd-writer has at least x kb/s. Re

Re: Disk priorities...

2000-10-15 Thread Erik Tews
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 12:45:47PM -0700, LA Walsh wrote: > Forgive me if this has been asked before, but has there ever been any > thought of having a 'nice' value for disk accesses?. I was on a > server with 4 CPU's but only 2 SCSI disks. Many times I'll see 4 processes > on disk wait, 3 of th

Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

2001-06-04 Thread Erik Tews
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:37:25PM -0300, Harald Welte wrote: > Hi! > > Is there any way to read out the compile-time HZ value of the kernel? > > I had a brief look at /proc/* and didn't find anything. > > The background, why it is needed: > > There are certain settings, for example the icmp r

Re: 2.4.6-pre2 VM

2001-06-12 Thread Erik Tews
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 01:17:05AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Alok K. Dhir wrote: > > > Just wondering - has anyone who was having issues with the VM > > subsystem in 2.4.5 and a few versions below tried v2.4.6-pre2? > > Is the problem reduced and/or resolved? > > The ans