Add ionice to File Manager [case 50023]

[panayot]

Sometimes users zip large directories in File Manager, causing server load. Adding this in front of the zip / unzip command will solve the problem:

ionice -c 3

[JerrySmith]

Hello,

As an expansion to your idea, it might be nice to see two similar options in tweak settings in WHM.

1) An option to disallow File Manager zip functionality for operations > X GBs

and

2) An option to configure a nice value for zip functionality within the File Manager with a default of 3.

[panayot]

Yes, that will be great. And it will easily work for gzip, tar and bzip2 as well.

By the way, i think ionice is not supported on older kernels like these in RHEL 4

[Kent Brockman]

+1 for this and whatever helps to reduce burden

[cPanelDavidG]

This has been added in version 11.31.1.2, you can enable it via Tweak Settings, where you will find settings such as the following under the System tab:

I/O Priority at which a I/O intensive user processes are run. (ionice must be available and supported by the kernel for this functionality)

[cPanelDavidG]

This functionality has propagated to all update tiers so I am now closing and archiving this thread.