On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Todd And Margo Chester
<[email protected]> wrote:
And, KVM is now off the hook, because, I am doing a backup and I
have not fired off a single VM this boot cycle, and ...
DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Sat Jul 7 22:59:37 2012
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
DUMP: 1.19% done at 11362 kB/s, finished in 6:56
DUMP: 2.62% done at 12559 kB/s, finished in 6:11
DUMP: 4.05% done at 12953 kB/s, finished in 5:54
It is doing its five times slower thing. I wonder if there is something
coincidentally I do that is causing the slowdown that
I typically do it when I am running XP, maybe like listen to
music while I work, or something else.
I am going to have to pay close attention to what I have run
on the Linux side when I have XP up.
The game is a foot!
-T
On 07/08/2012 07:08 AM, Joel Maslak wrote:> If you have RAID, are all
the disks working properly (no failed
> disks?)? If using software raid, what does /proc/mdstat look like?
> It's not rebuilding is it? If hardware RAID, is the controller
> actually decent (very few are)?
3ware LSI00216 SAS 9750-4i
>
> What does your memory usage look like when it works well and when it
> doesn't (how much is available to buffers)?
>
> Is slocate running? Is something else running doing a lot of io?
> (use something like "iostat 5" and, ignoring the first line, compare
> what it looks like before you start dump and the dump runs well vs.
> when it won't)
>
I have to reproduce it first. Pretty sure slocate is not running
as I can not find it on my machine. I have Xfce's "Performance Monitor"
plugins configured for both my hard drives, so I will pay
close attention. A mouse over will give a nice synopsis.
My suspicion is on VLC. Seems that the only VM I do any actual
work in is XP. (W7 is too slow.) Seems when I go into the
non-XP VM's, my mind set is to research something. When I
am in XP, I am doing administrative work, so I fire up VLC.
(How can anyone possible write invoices without Puccini blaring
in the background?)
So, the game is a foot!
Thank you for the suggestions.
-T
