[mythtv-users] ionice and mythcommflag (was Re: suspend and resume mythcommflag)

[Marc Sherman]

Misty P wrote:
> 
> I know it's not quite what you're looking for, but if disk contention is 
> causing the problem then using a script to pause/unpause commercial flagging 
> that's only looking at CPU usage is like using the weather to predict profit 
> margins.  Yes, they sort of affect each other, *but*...
> 
> I'd recommend using ionice instead.  ionice : disk :: nice : cpu.
> 
> (man ionice if that didn't make any sense.)

That's pretty cool, i'd never seen that before. Is there a simple way to
configure myth to always launch transcode and commflag user jobs with
ionice -c3?

Also, can nice and ionice stack on the command line? EG:

ionice -c3 nice COMMAND

Thanks,
- Marc