Public bug reported: Running popularity-contest via cron is sometimes very disruptive because of the high disk activity. It would be nice (pun intended) to run it through ionice to change the class to idle.
ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: popularity-contest 1.53ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Feb 13 21:42:03 2012 PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: popularity-contest UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-15 (121 days ago) modified.conffile..etc.cron.weekly.popularity.contest: [modified] mtime.conffile..etc.cron.weekly.popularity.contest: 2012-02-13T21:38:45 ** Affects: popularity-contest (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 oneiric -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/931684 Title: Popularity contest shourld run with ionice -c3 in cron To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/popularity-contest/+bug/931684/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs