libcachesave

LibCacheSave

A modification of the libeatmydata library to stop I/O intensive processes from impacting system interactivity (namely, destroying kernel's read caches and causing other processes to get swapped out).

Despite being based on libeatmydata, it removes all of libeatmydata's data eating functionality.

wraps read()s with posix_fadvise calls (see man posix_fadvise)

primarily designed for:

• rsync (backup) runs
• clamscan runs
• btrfs "offline" deduplication (bedup)

Installation:

• acquire libeatmydata source tarball
• run modify_libcachesave in it
• copy the included .c file over libcachesave/libcachesave.c in the modified tarball
• ./configure ...
• make
• make install

Usage in GNU Bash:

reallynice ()
{
    nice -n 19 ionice -c idle cachesave "$@"
}

reallynice rsync ...

security:

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