On 4/28/05, Chris de Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ClamAV 0.83 from dag.wieers.com
> CentOS 3.3 (A.K.A RedHat Enterprise Linux AS3)
> Kernel 2.4.28
>
> I have a full system scan cron job. We have a 1.25TB Samba server that
> causes the load average to go to 5+. When that happens the users notice
> and I must kill the script. I've even reniced it to 19 with no luck.
Nice impacts scheduler time, which is fine if you've got a CPU
bottleneck. However I suspect your bottleneck may be disk related.
Worth checking.
Oh, and the load average isn't the best measure of true load on a system.
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