Limiting disk I/O by jail or uid?

[Adam Vande More]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Stefan Bethke <stb at lassitu.de> wrote:

> I have a process that tends to eat up all available disk bandwidth.  I
> have other processes that I would like to have preference over this one
> process.  Is there a facility that would allow me to assign priorities
> based on jail ID or uid?
>
> This is on 8-stable (but will upgrade to 9 soon) on ZFS.
>
> The straightforward solution is to separate the datasets onto their own
> disks, which I'm planning to do, but a software facility would be that much
> more flexible.
>


http://wiki.freebsd.org/Hierarchical_Resource_Limits

-- 
Adam Vande More