Aaron Kulkis wrote:
ah... ionice seems to be a new invention. I'll give it a try when I build a new system this month.
I just checked suse10.2 packages... If you have the "ionice" program (/usr/bin/ionice) installed under SuSE-10.3 OR -10.2, daily beagle indexing will automatically use it to set the beagle-indexing process to lowest (idle) priority using the command format "ionice -c 3". The relevant lines in file /etc/cron.daily/beagle-crawl-system (fr suse10.3, beagle-0.2.12-28): lines 65-70: 65 IONICE=`which ionice 2>/dev/null` 66 if [ -n "$IONICE" ]; then 67 IONICE="$IONICE -c 3" 68 fi 69 70 eval nice -n 19 $IONICE su -s /bin/bash $CRAWL_USER -c \"MONO_SH ARED_DIR=$MONO_SHARED_DIR /usr/sbin/beagle-build-index --target /var/cache/b eagle/indexes/$CRAWL_INDEX_NAME $OPTIONS $CRAWL_PATHS\" > /dev/null 2>&1 71 fi (don't know about 10.1, SLED, or 10.0 as I don't have those packages locally accessible, but shouldn't be too hard for someone to verify)... Linda -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org