Quoting Arie Skliarouk (sklia...@gmail.com): > Hi, > > I understand that this is not the quite appropriate mailing list to ask the > question, but the question is related to the LXC tech we use on the server, > so here it goes: > > Most of the time the LXC containers on our servers work properly, but > occasionally someone, somewhere starts an IO heavy operation that kills > performance for everybody. For some time I tried to ask people nicely to > use "ionice -c 3" or run the task offhours but this is not enough. The > problem happens quite often for people to complain, but not (IMHO) to > warrant purchasing of new hardware. > > I envision that an ideal solution would be some daemon that would monitor > disk IO activity and automatically reduce (or raise, depending how you view > it) ionice priority of the process or the container. The daemon would > restore the IO niceness after some good behavior period. > > Is there any solution along the lines?
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