>| What happens is that the server is cooking along just fine serving about >| 2 million hits a day. Load level - according to top is running around >| 0.6 to 2.3 or so - and then rsync kicks in doing a backup between the >| drives and even though I'm running at nice +19 the load kicks up to >| around 50 and several services almost stop. That's why I'm asking for >| this feature. > >I think your problem is saturation of the disk bandwidth. The high load >is just the result of that. Instead of watching the system load, it
How about using the --bwlimit option to start with? Not quite a hands free solution I know, but it will avoid you hammering the disks to oblivion. -ed -- Edward Grace Photonics Group, Physics Department Blackett Laboratory Imperial College SW7 2BW t: 020 759 47721 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
