On 8 Oct 2002 at 2:37am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
It is very peculiar and just started recently what seems to be out of
the blue. The network clients are backing up at full speed but the file
Oh, sure, let me guess -- you didn't change anything, you swear. Uh huh.
;)
systems on the
My backups have recently slowed down...
It is very peculiar and just started recently what seems to be out of
the blue. The network clients are backing up at full speed but the file
systems on the dump-host itself have slowed to about one quarter of
their normal speed. I am using dump (as
I have observed the same thing on several Linux boxes. It seems
to be a result of the changes made to the virtual memory manager
code in the mid 2.4 kernel series when using multiple processors.
2.4.7 sounds like about the time it started, but I don't remember
exactly. We actually killed
