From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750948AbVJBC0p (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Oct 2005 22:26:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750949AbVJBC0p (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Oct 2005 22:26:45 -0400 Received: from mail.ctyme.com ([69.50.231.10]:1220 "EHLO newton.ctyme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750947AbVJBC0o (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Oct 2005 22:26:44 -0400 Message-ID: <433F4563.5060700@perkel.com> Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 19:26:43 -0700 From: Marc Perkel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Making nice niser for system hogging programs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spamfilter-host: newton.ctyme.com - http://www.junkemailfilter.com" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Just a thought ----- Programs like cp -a /bigdir /backup and rsync usually bring the server to a crawl no matter how much "nice" you put on them. Is there any way to make "nice" smarter in that it limits io as well as processor usage? If cp and rsyne ran a little slower IO wise then everything else could run too. -- Marc Perkel - marc@perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com