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Cheers, James Harrison On 02 October 2012 18:08:33, Stan Fotinos wrote: > Hi Nathan > > Have you tried using the following option? --bwlimit= > > Stan > > On 2/10/12 11:26 PM, Nathan Steele wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Having a problem with rsync lately (don't recall having it before, but >> not sure what changed, or maybe I just didn't notice). >> >> The background info: >> Rivendell broadcast appliance on a server machine with a 6 drive raid 5 >> (hardware controller) hosting mysql and /var/snd, and the delta 1010 >> audio card, rivendell broadcast appliance on an airplay machine, CAE >> running on the server (airplay runs on this machine but the audio comes >> out the server soundcard). A network drive is mounted as /backup on the >> server machine. the rivendell machines have gigabit nics and are on a >> gigabit switch, the network drive is 100 megabit nic. >> >> The problem: >> Running rsync -alv /var/snd /backup causes latency between the songs >> playing out. the songs play fine once they start, but we get a few >> seconds of dead air between songs, and it really throws the jocks off if >> they are on air. >> >> niceing it didn't help at all nice -n 19 rsync -alv /var/snd /backup, >> actually seemed to make it worse... >> >> I can't imagine the network is clogging....the cpu utilization seems to >> be fine, as well as RAM....... >> >> Any Ideas? >> >> the purpose of course is to backup my audio. any suggestions? am I using >> the wrong switches? should I be using a negative number for nice? (I >> read the docs and it seemed like i wanted a positive number..) >> >> thanks, >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBrJjQACgkQ22kkGnnJQAxBTwCfTo1GVT5aPy23MmauYyyYkj0M yK0AoJpj226/UfoDlXkljfrfxlQaI2VC =xzYa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev