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SubjectRe: usb-storage nice value
DervishD wrote:
> I'm having problems when reading/writing to external USB harddisks:
> my *internal* harddisk stalls from time to time, so watching a movie
> while copying data is a PITA (well, if the movie is bad, the leaps help
> a bit...).

If the internal harddisk is source or target of these copy operations...

...
> is there any way of modifying the pdflush behaviour so
> large buffered writes are less "agressive" and doesn't block apps which
> are just reading?

...then switching to another IO scheduler might perhaps help.

# cat /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler

# echo deadline > /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler
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