Re: pg_dump / pg_dumpall / memory issues

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