Bug 659292 - [Feature request] Updating of manpages could use ionice
Summary: [Feature request] Updating of manpages could use ionice
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: man-db
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Ivana Varekova
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-12-02 12:45 UTC by Zdenek Kabelac
Modified: 2011-01-31 12:36 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-01-31 12:36:01 UTC
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Description Zdenek Kabelac 2010-12-02 12:45:19 UTC
Description of problem:

Updating of manpages could be handled with some 'ionice' lowered priority.

I'm not sure if  'class 2' (best-effort) or 'class 3' (idle) - for desktop
I would prefer 'idle' myself - but I could understand, that for server there should be some max time for updates - this could be handled via some
preferencies  in /etc/default ?

Package mlocate is already using ionice (with class 2)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
man-db-2.5.9-2.fc15.x86_64

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Actual results:
update of manpages is noticeable by user - disk gets slower.


Expected results:
Better user experience when using good old rotational drives.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Colin Watson 2010-12-02 13:35:54 UTC
Debian/Ubuntu's man-db cron jobs use the idle class for this.

Comment 2 Ivana Varekova 2011-01-31 12:36:01 UTC
Thanks, fixed in man-db-2.5.9-3.fc15.


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