I would suggest that your script that calls the various rsync commands creates a lockfile and whatever script that is spawning off the additional rsync processes waits until this lockfile is gone before doing anything.
Ray On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:52:41AM +1000, dtra wrote: > dtra wrote: > > >hi all > > > >we're using rsync to backup our web server at the moment using it in a > >cron job > >the server we are using to receive all the sync files is a live but > >not heavily used linux machine > >but rsync still takes up more resources than we want it to > >it takes up to 95% (fluctuating) cpu load and a fair bit of memory too > > > >the cron job uses nice -19 rsync > >but that doesn't seem to do anything, is there anyway to make it use > >like 5% cpu or something? > > > >thanks > >dave > > > sorry, one more thing, on the server we are getting the files from, max > connections is set to 1 > but when i go to top on the backup server, i can see several instances > of rsync running > eg. every twenty minutes a new rsync starts running > that's not how it's meant to work, does anyone know how i can make it so > that > if one rsync instance is still going, then the next one shouldn't start up? > > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > -- Ray Van Dolson Linux/Unix Systems Administrator Digital Path, Inc. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html