On Wednesday 19 May 2010 17:52:29 Sam Przyswa wrote:
> When the BackupPC_nightly processes are running the SSH login take a
> very long time to get the prompt and then the machine is very slow to
> execute task, how to nice these processes ?

My RsyncClientCmd looks like this:

$sshPath -q -x -l root $host /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/ionice -c 3 
$rsyncPath $argList+

That uses nice level 19 and ionice 3 (idle disk).

Regards,
Tyler

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