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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: how to limit disk IO utilization by the nfs server?
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:28:06 -0400
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On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:18:45PM +0100, Tom wrote:
> I would like to throttle the nfs server's IO utilization as when its
> at 100% its causing problems, and I would like to restrict the
> clients.

What sort of problems, exactly?

Which kernel version are you using?

> Any suggestions on how I can do this?

I don't know how, unfortunately.

--b.