It occurs to me that nicing BackupPC_link down to a lower priority level would be beneficial at times; mostly when there is a link process going on at the same time as some dump processes.
The important thing in backups is to get the data to the backup server. Once that is done, the housekeeping tasks are a much lower priority (so long as they get done). In order to speed up the backups which may be contending with a link process for disk and CPU, I think it would be beneficial to nice the link process down automatically. I would argue that the BackupPC_nightly processes can also be niced down, for the same reason. They may be contending with dump processes; and the dumps are far more important. (Unless you're nearly out of space, which is a pathological case). Craig, is this a fairly straightforward change, and do you think it beneficial? -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
