- overall block IO bandwith limit for the
- executed processes. Takes a space
- separated pair of a device node path
- and a bandwith value (in bytes per
- second) to specify the device specific
- bandwidth. If the bandwith is suffixed
- with K, M, G, or T the specified
- bandwith is parsed as Kilobytes,
- Megabytes, Gigabytes, resp. Terabytes
- (Example: "/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0 5M"). This
- controls the
+ overall block IO bandwith limit for
+ the executed processes. Takes a space
+ separated pair of a file path and a
+ bandwith value (in bytes per second)
+ to specify the device specific
+ bandwidth. The file path may be
+ specified as path to a block device
+ node or as any other file in which
+ case the backing block device of the
+ file system of the file is determined.
+ If the bandwith is suffixed with K, M,
+ G, or T the specified bandwith is
+ parsed as Kilobytes, Megabytes,
+ Gigabytes, resp. Terabytes (Example:
+ "/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0
+ 5M"). This controls the