> I'm using Samba to mount some folders from a Windows machine. Do you mean that the folders are on the windows machine, and you're using the Linux smbfs filesystem to make the available on Linux? > I then use rsync to make a copy of the folder. When this runs it > uses too many resources causing Linux to run strangely. Too many of which resources? What happens? How many files are in the directory, and what is the total size? Where are you copying it to? Are you running rsync on the Linux machine, or somewhere else? > I thought that there might be someone who is familiar with both > rsynch and Samba the that might be able to shed some light on the > subject that frequents this page. <grin> > > I've thought of a couple of ways to limit this. > One would be to run nice to lower the priority. > The other is the use the --bwlimit switch. > > Rsynch version is 2.4.4- -- Martin Pool, Human Resource Linuxcare. Inc. +61 2 6262 8990 [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://linuxcare.com.au/ Linuxcare. Putting Open Source to work.
