I have good experience with with "ionice -n 7 ...".
On 2012-12-06 17:16, John Doe wrote:
anyone has some successful experience with ionice? I tried it with 'idle' (-c 3) parameter. When I did a quick test (find /), it seemed to work with frequent pauses (I guess waiting for idle). But when I used it on my big tar, it made it worse than without... which seems counter-intuitive.
I have good experience with with "ionice -n 7 ...".