Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 23:57, Les Mikesell<lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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). > > I used to think that, but in fact processes that are blocked in disk > i/o (the ones in "D" state) do count in load average. So the load > average of 12 in this case probably means processes writing to the > disk.
That must be a Linux quirk (bug?) but it does explain some numbers I've seen. Regardless, there shouldn't be that many things running. > > Stephen, it seems strange to me that there are 8 BackupPC_nightly > processes running, have you increased $Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} > from 2 to 8? > > I would suggest you start by setting $Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} > back to 2 or even to 1. If you set it to 1 and it can't finish its job > in 24h, then increase $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} to 2 or 4 so that > only 1/2 or 1/4 of the pool is processed each night. More importantly, BackupPC_nightly shouldn't overlap with backup jobs if possible. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/blackberry _______________________________________________ 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/