Michael Stenner <mstenner < at > ece.arizona.edu>
wrote the following on Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:38:18 -0700
I gather that --sleep-ratio has been removed, but I couldn't find any
mention of why (although I'm just curious about that) or how one
should go about replacing it. Basically, I don't want to pound my
disks. Obviously, "nice" does little for disk access and because I'm
running locally, I don't really see --remote-schema helping either.
Any suggestions?
It wasn't obvious where to put little checks to see if rdiff-backup
should halt. Also it made the code clunkier.
I'm sure the feature would help some people but inside rdiff-backup
didn't seem to be the place to put it. Ideally the OS would do this:
OS is supposed to limit access to resources. Or perhaps you could
write a script to send stop and continue signals to a running
rdiff-backup process. Either way this might work not just with
rdiff-backup but any other disk-intensive process you might have.
--
Ben Escoto
