Paul Harmor wrote: > > > I'm running a 1.3Gig Duron, 512 DDR, LVM and 2x160GB drives, on Ubuntu 6.10. > > I have only 2 machines (at the moment) being backed up, but every time > the backups start, the server system slows to an UNUSEABLE crawl, until > I can, slowly, start top, and renice the 4 backuppc processes. > > Any way to make them start nicer, to begin with? >
If you nice the backuppc parent process when you originally launch it (man nice to see how) it's children will inherit the nice value. you might also want to look at tweaking how many backups BackupPC will run at once to 1 so that it does the machines sequentially - if you only have one disk spindle in your backup pool filesystem it may actually run faster that way. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
