4 echo "ATTENTION ioniced:"
5 echo "------------------"
7 echo "To make it short, this daemon re-prioritizes your disk I/O operations based"
8 echo "on a given list of process IDs, and you NEED to have the Kernel CFQ scheduler"
9 echo "enabled to use it."
11 echo "To configure it, edit the 'ionice_these' line in /sbin/ioniced and add the"
12 echo "processes you want to ionice and their priority (should be self-explaining)."
14 echo "There are three levels of io-niceness:"
16 echo "1: real time -> DONT use this unless you know what you are doing"
17 echo "2: best effort -> default setting"
18 echo "3: idle -> lowest priority"
20 echo "You can use the command 'iops' to check out the I/O priority of your processes."
22 echo "This is experimental and you SHOULD edit and understand /sbin/ioniced before"
23 echo "starting it... YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!"