Re: [ilugd] Slow tar

2007-10-26 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 26 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do we use tar with limited resources like some specific cycle of > CPU to use e.g20% CPU, with specified I/O or bandwidth limit e.g > 50MB/s You can limit CPU usage with nice(1). While it sets no bounds on the amount of CPU that is used, it ensure th

[ilugd] Slow tar

2007-10-26 Thread Yashpal Nagar
Hi All On a production Linux box with tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1, i want to nightly backup most of the file system & then scping/rsync to another box. How do we use tar with limited resources like some specific cycle of CPU to use e.g20% CPU, with specified I/O or bandwidth limit e.g 50MB/s if anybody