Comment 4 for bug 1220396

Actually, it should have an option to do this. *duplicity* is made to be
run off-hours with a cron job while users are not on the system. Unlike
interactive backups, there is no comprehension of user activity.

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Thomas Guettler <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> I know how to use ionice. I want sane defaults. Duplicity should set the
> maximum ionice+nice level itself.
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> Title:
> should set nice level
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> Status in Duplicity:
> New
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> Bug description:
> If I run a backup, the whole system is slow. I think the backup
> process should set a nice level (and ionice), since it is a background
> job. The interactive processes (terminal, webbrowser ...) should not
> be slowed down by the backup process.
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