Limiting disk I/O by jail or uid?

[Stefan Bethke]

Am 21.11.2011 um 19:32 schrieb 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

Interesting, but it doesn't seem to offer limiting the I/O bandwidth induced by a process or jail, or assigning different priorities, which would need to be implemented in the ZFS or GEOM schedulers, I suppose.


Stefan

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