Bug 754033

Summary: Feature request: Support ionice daemon option
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Joseph D. Wagner <joe>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: iarlyy, jonathan, notting, plautrba, rvokal
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Description Joseph D. Wagner 2011-11-15 08:29:00 UTC
Created attachment 533705 [details]
Patch to implement described behavior.

Currently, the daemon() function within /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions supports adding a line NICELEVEL=x into /etc/sysconfig/foo as a way of setting the daemon's CPU niceness.  However, there is currently no support for setting a daemon's IO niceness.

A sysadmin, such as myself, may want to throttle a daemon's IO niceness without throttling its CPU niceness.

The attached patch implements this functionality.  It tested successfully on my machine.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2011-11-16 18:55:26 UTC
Given the advent of systemd support for system services, I'm inclined to leave this as something done there.