[CentOS] ionice...

John Doe jdmls at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 10 11:09:53 UTC 2012


From: Paul Bijnens <Paul.Bijnens at xplanation.com>
> 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 ...".

I will try but theoreticaly "best effort" should be more intense than "idle".
>From a quick test, it seems to be the case
But I am using ionice to replace nice... maybe I need to use both.

Thx,
JD



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