Re: [RFC][PATCH] per-task I/O throttling

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Andrea Righi wrote:
> Allow to limit the bandwidth of I/O-intensive processes, like backup
> tools running in background, large files copy, checksums on huge files,
> etc.
> 
> This kind of processes can noticeably impact the system responsiveness
> for some time and playing with tasks' priority is not always an
> acceptable solution.
> 
> This patch allows to specify a maximum I/O rate in sectors per second
> for each single process via /proc/<PID>/io_throttle (default is zero,
> that specify no limit).
> 
It would seem to me that this would be vastly more useful in the real 
world if there were a settable default, so that administrators could 
avoid having to find and tune individual user processes. And it would 
seem far less common that the admin would want to set the limit *up* for 
a given process, and it's likely to be one known to the admin, at least 
by name.

Of course if you want to do the effort to make it fully tunable, it 
could have a default by UID or GID. Usful on machines shared by students 
or managers.

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