On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:59:18AM -0500, STeve Andre' wrote: > On Thursday 04 February 2010 01:44:15 Ted Unangst wrote: > > I haven't really solved the problem I want to solve, but was able to whip > > this up pretty quickly. Basically, it's just a wrapper that runs a > > command and then starves it from running. disknice is a misnomer, it also > > gets starved from cpu, but at the current time the only way to slow down a > > process's io is to stop it. Not a complete solution, but it will slow > > down a large tar job to the point where other programs have plenty of time > > to get their requests in. The sleep ratios should be tunable, aren't. > > > > > time disknice md5 -t > > I'm definitely going to play with this. > > To retard a process might be a better word, but might raise objections, > so arrest, bridle or moderate might be better? > > --STeve Andre'
'filibuster' the process? .... Ken
