Hi Dave, Thanks for your reply. > > So what do you think is a good approach to find out what slows > > backuppc down? > > Running top and vmstat 3 while a backup is running works very > well and will help track down where the bottleneck is.
I did this. Here's an extract from it: procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 3 0 80 6944 32080 328428 0 0 668 1176 3503 7659 33 29 38 0 1 0 80 8744 32156 327636 0 0 5 2240 3515 8019 29 22 45 4 3 0 80 7548 32156 328932 0 0 685 805 3854 8550 21 23 56 0 2 0 80 6516 32152 328976 0 0 673 1131 3788 8503 28 24 47 0 0 0 80 7152 32144 329464 0 0 0 727 3450 8009 35 20 45 0 1 0 80 7364 32204 329152 0 0 668 2371 3906 8817 23 21 52 4 0 0 80 6388 32028 329144 0 0 0 536 3320 7767 33 19 48 0 0 0 80 8360 32028 328212 0 0 676 1900 3710 8449 26 22 49 3 3 0 80 7028 32084 328412 0 0 0 1637 3716 8555 27 19 52 2 2 0 80 7200 31992 328452 0 0 668 712 3135 7354 40 19 41 0 0 0 80 6840 31968 328784 0 0 673 2903 3339 7813 39 23 38 1 3 0 80 7712 31980 328620 0 0 0 537 3433 8034 35 19 45 0 1 0 80 7008 32048 328548 0 0 667 2975 3496 8047 32 22 42 5 4 0 80 6852 32048 329256 0 0 665 1075 3704 8431 33 25 43 0 0 0 80 8156 32112 328160 0 0 0 2239 3746 8608 21 20 55 4 0 0 80 7412 32168 329264 0 0 735 956 3866 8790 21 22 55 3 0 0 80 6740 31856 328856 0 0 665 960 3511 7990 32 22 45 0 2 0 80 7236 31680 329172 0 0 0 1699 3640 8303 28 22 50 0 0 0 80 7096 31688 329884 0 0 671 1069 3815 8651 24 22 53 0 1 0 80 7008 31392 330084 0 0 665 1168 3655 8382 21 22 56 0 0 1 80 14868 31488 327716 0 0 88 1007 3688 7842 23 34 42 1 Sorry, but I really don't know, how to interpret it. I know (read it in the man-page) what the columns are, but still I cannot draw conclusions. Out of couriousity: How many MB/s do your backups usually acheive? Greetings, Hendrik ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
