2 Sep
2008
2 Sep
'08
3:03 p.m.
On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Is there a way to nice the IO on a process such as dd? If not, what could be a way to control the IO level of such a process from bogging down a server to severely.
There is ionice (assuming CentOS-5) in the util-linux package. It's by no means perfect but unlike nice it atleast tries to do what you want :-)
Try it out.
/Peter