Complete Guide: Installing ioprocess on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) 2024

1. Install "ioprocess" package

This tutorial shows how to install ioprocess on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                ioprocess
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "ioprocess" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall ioprocess on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                ioprocess
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the ioprocess package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: ioprocess
Priority: extra
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 51
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Milan Zamazal
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.15.1-2ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libyajl2 (>= 2.0.4)
Filename: pool/universe/i/ioprocess/ioprocess_0.15.1-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 15736
MD5sum: 36b165b14dff5373be0105a78723c50f
SHA1: 1864ee08a5ddf2969dfa647bc6d025d1f544d528
SHA256: 09fac4ead9e11355a928639417f8b40681cac150431daa2333e9f4c886d13ae8
Description-en: Slave process to perform risky IO
When performing IO over network storage (specifically NFS) the process might
get stuck in D state. To prevent your main process from becoming unkillable
you might prefer to have a slave process do all the risky IO. This is what
ioprocess is for.
Description-md5: 70885cda1c4d0591799664e9e8f3a73a
Homepage: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/ioprocess
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu