Re: pg_dump / pg_dumpall / memory issues

Dennis Gearon <gearond@cvc.net>

From: Dennis Gearon <gearond@cvc.net>
To: Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
Cc: Kyle <kyle@ccidomain.com>, Forum - Postgresql General <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-04-10T17:08:20Z
Lists: pgsql-general
If it does, then the first PC based multimedia system will fially be born. 
Actually, the reverse of nice is needed for that; I need X amount of mips and Y 
amount of I/O to run, should be a valid API call. THEN, multimedia apps can be 
waht they're supposed to be.

Doug McNaught wrote:
> Kyle <kyle@ccidomain.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Shridhar has a good point using nice.  I know RedHat supports nice
>>because I have installed a totally background program that uses "nice
>>19" as part of its command line.
> 
> 
> He's talking about honoring 'nice' for I/O scheduling, which is
> in addition to the standard modification of CPU priority.  Linux
> doesn't currently do this in 2.4--it was discussed for 2.5 but I don't
> know if it has gone in yet.
> 
> -Doug
> 
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