Hendrik Friedel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Well, top tells me, BackupPc_dump is using about 10% of mem and about 50%
> CPU. With this, BackupPC is the top resource user.
> I'm not too familiar with processes under linux. There are about 10
> Processes "vdr", using exactly the same amount of mem(7.5%), but having a
> different PID. So do I have to add these up (then it would be 75% mem Usage
> by vdr), or is it just one job, thus using 7.5%?
>
> Besides this, please take a look at the attached image.
> I started the Backup at 14:08. The free Memory drops to almost zero. The job
> was finished at about 20:30 (10 gig, 0.5MB/sec). Immidiately the free mem
> increases. Then, at 21:00 another backup started and the free mem goes down
> again.
>
> CPU usage was below 75% all the time.
>
> Do you have any Idea, why the Backup takes so much memory, and especially
> why this apparently slows down the backup?
Rsync transfers the entire directory listing before starting the
comparison, so there is a fixed memory requirement per file on the
target. This should only impact performance if the server can't hold it
in RAM and is forced to swap to disk.
--
Les Mikesell
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