Renicing and disk usage priority

[Kristoffer Knigga]

Hello, all,

I have a server that's running a bunch of processes that I believe are disk bound.  The server is an 8-way machine running at about 60% idle, and each process averages about 3% of one processor (they are all single threaded).

Now, I have one of these processes that I need to have running at a higher priority when it comes to disk access.  Does renicing a process effect its ability to fight for disk resources, or just processor?

Thanks!

Kris Knigga