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rsync: Maximum nice to keep system responsive

Unfortunately a background rsync reduces the responsiveness of a server. I search a way to have maximum niceness for this background task, to keep the server respond fast. My current wrapper commands are this: nice -n19 ionice -c3 nocache Source:…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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