On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 01:18:13PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > This high load may be due to the "nightly" rsync you see below:
The rsync job (nightly backups) is likely the cause of the high IO wait (22% in your top output). Still, I don't think that that would account for all of the high load average. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege | CTO, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 25F774AB | http://identi.ca/cure | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=859
