Possible to prioritize IO requests based on the requesting process?

[Eugene Grosbein]

25.12.2017 5:37, Yuri пишет:
> If I am watching a Netflix movie, I wouldn't want some batch file download to interrupt me, because, obviously, the response from an interactive process is expected with higher urgency, compared to a batch result.
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> Assuming that disk/network IO is a bottleneck, is there a way to prioritize them based on pid?

Start by reading rctl(8) manual page.