-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Correspondingly, the ionice command may help.

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

Reply via email to