Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports niceload: macos iostat differences

[Ole Tange]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 8:31 PM, PFudd <address@hidden> wrote:

> Perhaps niceload could have another command line option so that MacOS
> users can at least specify IO bandwidth as MB/s, since they can't do
> percentages. Percentages would require niceload to load that number
> from a configuration file, with all of its potential for user
> misconfiguration and devices randomly changing names.

It has earlier been suggested that niceload should be able to call a
user specified program which will return a number between 0 and 100,
and that niceload based on this value will suspend/run the actual
command.

This way it will be easier for mac users to make their own script for
determining IO. If a generally useful script turns up, then that can
be included with niceload.


/Ole