Shridhar has a good point using nice. I know RedHat supports nice
because I have installed a totally background program that uses "nice
19" as part of its command line.
I just successfully tried this on a RedHat 7.3:
nice -n 15 pg_dumpall >testdump.sql
It seems to work. However, my SQL server is so lightly loaded I cannot
verify that it actually *helps*.
-Kyle
Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> If you have an OS that binds nice value of a process to it's I/O priority, you
> can lower the priority of pg_dump so that it runs very slow, so to speak.
>
> I believe freeBSD does this. Not sure if linux does it as well.
>
> HTH
>
> Shridhar
>
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