27 May
2006
27 May
'06
15:02
On Saturday 27 May 2006 16:35, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 08:28 +0200, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
entire files system (exageration, running several recursive finds), for what
I would still like to see a way to prioritise disc assess. So that I can say process "updatedb" and anything it calls, will get nothing but the leftover cycles. If it's alreay running, and something else comes up, like say, ls -lh, then ls -lh will immediately be given priority.
There is a way, it's called ionice. Have a look at "man ionice" for details