Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I sort of started this on another thread but wanted to nail a few things > down first. I'm wanting to encrypt some parts of my data on /home. > <<< SNIP >>> >
OK. I looked into another hard drive but budget right now says no. So, I went back to plan A. I managed to remove the 6TB drive and it is now on it's own LVM thingy. I've moved enough over to mount it and use it as my /home directory. I'm in the process of copying other non-critical files over so I can move things around some more. Anyway, I'm using rsync to copy things over. It works great, can restart if I need to stop it etc etc but it has one thing that annoys me. While it is copying things over, it makes my system slow to respond. Once the cache in memory gets pretty full, it takes a while to switch desktops or for programs to show up when I do get to a desktop. Seamonkey seems to be hit hardest with this. I tried putting ionice in front of the command but it is still slow. My CPU cores are a bit busy but nowhere near 100%. Most cores are switching from almost idle to around 40% at their peak. If I added them all up, I'd say the total would average around 10%, 20% at the very most. I've got swapiness set pretty low and it isn't using swap according to gkrellm. Anyone have a idea how to make rsync not cause this problem? Is there something besides ionice I need to use? Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
