On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:31:05 +0200
Roman Kapusta <roman.kapu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 00:03, Pat Regan <theh...@patshead.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:39:48 +0200
> > Xavier Nicollet <nicol...@jeru.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Le 26 octobre 2010 à 15:15, Pat Regan a écrit:
> >> > I turned off the 5-minute snapshots and I'm now just keeping 4
> >> > weekly, 7 daily, and 24 hourly snapshots alive.
> >>
> >> I have just rebooted and I am going with /15 minutes interval.
> >>
> >
> > I'm just replying so this is documented somewhere.
> >
> > After I read your message I decided to turn on snaphots at 15 minute
> > intervals yesterday.  This morning I had snapshot processing
> > filling up my process list again.
> 
> I think there is no problem with snapshot creation every 5 or 15
> minutes, but problem is with deleting old snapshots every 5 or 15
> minutes. Can you try to run cleanup of old snapshots only once per day
> to check if it will improve?

Reducing the frequency of snapshot removal sure did work.  I started
with a pretty large amount of time between snapshot removal jobs and I
have been decreasing that number.  I have been running with a 1 hour
delay between snapshot removals for almost 24 hours so far with no
problems.

Pat
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