Re: [Vserver] disk scheduling ?

From: Tony Lewis <gnutered_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: Tue 05 Jun 2007 - 11:52:45 BST
Message-ID: <4665407D.2040003@yahoo.com.au>

Nicolas Cadou wrote:
> Le Sunday 3 June 2007 02:15, Tony Lewis a écrit :
>
>> My context is this: one vserver runs a popular web site, and on another
>> one, occasionally I shift multi-gig files around, with cp. When I'm doing
>> that, the website vserver grinds to a halt - well, responds to requests
>> quite slowly anyway.
>>
>
> Instead of cp I use rsync --bwlimit=7000, which throttles I/O to a bit less
> than 7MB/s. Works for local disk-to-disk copying, and works quite well.
>

There's always a workaround, but that's the same as renice'ing processes
on one vserver to be cognisant of the needs of another vserver. It's
what the CPU limiting handles, so vservers can be more autonomous.

Tony

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