Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] Quick fix to enable ioprio

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

tobutaz gmail com wrote:
> On 10/30/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> > tobutaz gmail com wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > the attached patch fixes a problem that prevented ioprio support from
> > > being built on my system (an ubuntu edgy). The problem was that
> > > _syscall2 only works in the kernel tree, but is not part of the linux
> > > headers in /usr/include. So I had a look at how it was done in the
> > > schedutils package instead.
> > > Cheers,
> > > Gabriel de Perthuis
> >
> >
> > thanks have applied
> >
> > not sure how to check its working on Edgy though? (how can I tell what
> > io priority a preocess is set as?)
>
> Yup, it's the ionice command. It works like that:
> ionice -p $(pgrep trackerd)
>
> In debian, this is part of the schedutils package.

thanks ionice now reports trackerd  running at level 7 best effort :)


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