Being 'nice' with I/O: limiting a processes I/O resources in *nix
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Mar 15, 20262016 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I'm working on a big shared Ubuntu server and am annoying my colleagues. One of my processes is making a lot of inserts into a MySQL database and it's bogging the whole server down. MySQL is not using much of the CPU resources nor much of the RAM. If that were the case I could use the tools 'nice' …
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Fix for: Being 'nice' with I/O: limiting a processes I/O resources in *nix
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(part of util-linux) can adjust the I/O priority of a process, allowing to select between idle, 8 "best effort" and 8 realtime priority levels. Class 3 is "idle": can adjust the general scheduling policy, again with "idle" being one of the choices:
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