[ale] Sometimes, it's the little things...

[mi...@trausch.us]

I have long known of the utility of the "nice" and "ionice" programs
(and associated system calls). But rarely have I actually found them
useful, because of the way that I typically do things; I usually load my
primary workstation with a job and let it run until it is finished.
Sometimes, I offload some of the work to my server, and, rarely, I will
do something that requires one of (a) the use of an insane number of
CPUs or (b) the use of an insane number of my hours.

So often, I want my jobs to run as fast as bloody possible and to hell
with everything else.

Well, today is a bit different. Today, I have some new quarter-end
processing jobs to do, and on a server that is a lone wolf.

Today, "nice" and "ionice" are my best friends.

I was able to do some otherwise intensive work with minimal disruption
to the client's environment, and it worked out _really_ well.

That's pretty much it. I just wanted to say that really, sometimes, it
indeed is the little things that make life wonderful.

--- Mike

--
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
--- Carveth Read, “Logic”