I have never seen nice have any useful IO throttling effect (unless you are using 100% of your cpu with non-niced processes that is), so for exactly the reason you say, it takes very little cpu to do a massive amount of IO, so nice won't work.
There are some kernel knobs that will control IO but those knobs are not very simple (see cgroups), so it is easier to just use the dirty, and a secondary effect to the dirty is that at 20%, the writecache can also cause the system to page to get that 20% memory. On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 7:28 PM Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > > On 3/31/20 5:01 PM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > > This may not solve the problem but if you need it to work right > > now, what would happen if your reniced it? > > That doesn't help. There's no lack of CPU time and I don't think > process priority has any effect on IO priority. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
