The box isn't used for anything else..I can keep an eye on it tonight and
see whats causing the load in those first few hours..

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Stephen Vaughan wrote:
> > I'm only running 2 concurrent backups. The disk is/was mounted with
> > noatime,data=journal. I've changed this to
> noatime,nodiratime,data=writeback
> >
> > I've also just enabled the checksum-seed option in rsyncargs. I have
> > munin running on the box, it looks as though there is a bit of iowait on
> > the cpu, iostat doesn't look too bad to me, but I might be reading it
> > wrong..
> >
> > I've attached some graphs which might shed some light..
>
> The only thing that seems slightly strange in the graphs is the load
> average
> going to 12 as the backups start and staying there a couple of hours.
>  Normally
> that's the average number of 'other' processes that are waiting for CPU but
> otherwise runnable (i.e. not themselves blocked on i/o).  Do you have other
> things running that should be active at this time?  Idle daemons wouldn't
> count
> because they should be blocked waiting for input.
>
> --
>   Les Mikesell
>    lesmikes...@gmail.com
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