Questions tagged [ionice]
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rsync ionice softraid - limit io locally?
I know this seems to be a recurrent question but it's been troubling for a while now, so if anyone has a brilliant idea please let me know.
My Setup
OS
Debian Wheezy
HDDs
2 x 240GB SSD for system (sda & sdb in RAID1 - md0=/boot md1=/
md2=/tmp…
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JayC
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Using ionice Over Cluster
Background:
I use a computing cluster at work (4 slave nodes and 1 head node) that uses the SGE job scheduler. Recently we've been running jobs that do some heavy IO and it has been slowing down shell/vim usage (small IO, but we need it running…
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sequenceGeek
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inonice not working properly in xen dom0
I have a Xen Dom0 (3.2) with a bunch of domUs (paravirt). DomU VBDs are on local LVM volumes. Now I want to get backups of the LVM volumes using snapshots. I use rsync ioniced to idle (ionice -c3).
I have verified that the rsync processes are really…
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tim
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ionice process group?
Is there an easy way to change the I/O priority of a whole group of processes the way renice -g does? It seems like only changing the I/O priority of a single process is supported by ionice. If this can't be done, can someone please point me to…
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Does ionice has any effect on NFS client?
I need to remove millions of directories recursively on a NFS share and to avoid any performance issues, I ran the command with:
ionice -c 3 -t find /dir -type f -exec rm {};
which will delete all the files and the leftover empty directories, I can…
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Get NewRelic to respect ionice'd processes
On our web server, we perform an incremental backup of our files every 4 hours using rsnapshot. To perform the actual copying of files, I've configured it to use a custom script, cp-nice that has the following contents:
nice -n19 ionice -c3 cp…
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Running a process with both low cpu and I/O priority on rhel4
I've know about running a process under higher & lower priorities for some time, but with different I/O priorities, well that is news to me. My googles have returned information on tools like renice (I've know) and ionice (news to me), but ionice…
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Stu Thompson
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Guideline for `nice` priority number?
I'd like a more systematic way for prioritizing my tasks with nice(1).
Obviously 0 is "normal", 19 is "lowest priority" and -19 is "highest priority", but what about all the other numbers?
If I have a job that is non-interactive (I'll go get coffee…
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Ionice And Apache2
I am trying to run apache2 at real time priority for this I want to use IONICE but have not been successful.
Debian 6 (2.6.32-5-amd64)
I use this command
ionice -c1 -n0 apache2
But I get this error
apache2: bad user name ${APACHE_RUN_USER}
Can…
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high load and OOM-killer on domUs while pvmove
Situation
xen 4.0.1 dom0 (debian squeeze)
domUs all with LVs as disks: disk = [ 'phy:/dev/vg-00/domu-swap,xvda1,w', 'phy:/dev/vg-00/domu-disk,xvda2,w' ])
one VG (vg-00) with 2 PVs
Goal
Move all LVs from one PV to the other (pvmove) and remove…
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m.sr
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