Re: Poor desktop responsiveness with background I/O-operations

Mike Galbraith
2009-09-22T09:20:29Z

On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 09:06 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> I don't know if distros provide a tool that supports SCHED_IDLE, if so,
> you can use that to set both CPU and IO usage to IDLE class in one go.

P.S. I just remembered, don't use SCHED_IDLE with kernels < 2.6.28.
There are two patches wrt this scheduling class which did not go to the
stable trees less than 2.6.28.

-Mike