Joseph L. Casale ha scritto: > 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. > As I was told few days ago you cold nice the whole process, eg. nice 19 if=/xxx of=/xxx bs=nnn This should give all the other process priority over dd Hope this helps -- Regards Lorenzo Quatrini