On Wed, 12 Jun 96 16:56:26 MDT, my original question was:
> Hello,
> I am running a process niced to 20, so that it doesn't interfere
> with other stuff. The problem is, when this process wants to swap a lot,
> it does, and basically you can't do anything on the machine until it's
> done since it's taking over all resources by writing to disk.
>
> Is there a way to limit the amount of swap transfer per second, or
> something like that? It happens on an AlphaStation 250 4/266 running DU
> 3.2C.
Well... a few people wrote me too's, but the general consensus is that
it is not possible to do this. A half-way solution would be to put the
swap partition on a different disk, and better if on a different SCSI
bus than where the root dir is.
Thanks to:
Dave Newbold <dave.newbold_at_bristol.ac.uk>
Javier Aida <jaida_at_gmd.com.pe>
Aaron Manzano <amanzano_at_trinidad.net>
Mariano.
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Received on Mon Jun 17 1996 - 00:22:45 NZST