On Wed Feb 09, 2005 at 11:36:13 +1100, Steve Kowalik wrote: >On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:12:11 +1100, David uttered >> I guess this is the point of the question. Is there a way of prioritising >> so that the effect of tar running is minimised. >> >Sure. Start tar and then renice the process to 20 (it will only run >when nothing else wants to), man renice for more information.
But nice only effects the CPU usage, and doesn't do anything with the amount of buffer cache being thrashed, or the memory bus being killed by disk transfers or the increased seek times for any other applications, etc, etc, etc. Fixing this would be an interested project for aspiring kernel hackers : Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
