[mythtv-users] some more RAID and HD speed questions

[Stephen Norris]

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 01:03 +0000, kteague at speakeasy.net wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Adeff [mailto:adeffs at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:30 AM
> > To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] some more RAID and HD speed questions
> > >
> > > I don't see why you shoudln't be able to use nice against the cp command
> > > (or whatever means you're using to transfer the data).  
> > 
> > which I have been doing, I just didn't think it would work for this. But I'll 
> > give it a try and hopefully won't have any issues =)
> 
> While nice may be able to regulate how much CPU time is given to cp, cp isn't going to treat the drives any differently, so what you may end up with is something similar to burst transfers, which I don't think is what you're looking for.  I believe you're looking for something to regulate how much priority cp has over the hard disk.

Would rsync's bwlimit option help here?

	Stephen