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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080902/69cf5f2f/attachment-0004.sig>