going by the graphs it seems to be an IO issue, has anyone tried running
raid 10 with backuppc?

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.
>
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Stephen
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