iowait means disk wait problems.  Either move to a 3ware raid card or
to a scsi drive to improve matters.  

cheers,

ski

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:47:45 +0100 "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> We're running a BackupPC 3.1.0 installation on CentOS 4 32-bit on a  
> machine with the following specs:
> 
> - Intel Celeron CPU 2.66 GHz
> - 512 MB RAM
> - BackupPC pool on a single 250 GB ATA 133 drive
> 
> We currently running one backup at a time ($Conf{MaxBackups} = 1;).  
> This already maxes out the iowait%. The machine is also swapping  
> sometimes. If we'd want to do more backups simultaneously, how would  
> you prioritize the following possible upgrades:
> 
> - Dual (or more) core CPU
> - More RAM
> - Faster drive (more drives (RAID)?)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Nils Breunese.
> 
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