Re: [Dump-users] limiting io-rate

[Tony N. <ton...@ge...>]

At 4:38 PM +0100 12/22/07, Peter =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=BCnster?= wrote:
>Hello,
>
>During the backup with dump (some minutes), the responsiveness of my
>desktop degrades heavily, because of the high rate dump is reading on the
>hard-disk.
>Is it possible to limit the io-rate of dump?

Perhaps ionice, using idle priority?

    # ionice -c3 dump -dumpoptions
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