On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:52:41AM +1000, dtra wrote: > the cron job uses nice -19 rsync > [...] > sorry, one more thing, on the server we are getting the files from, > max connections is set to 1
Are you connecting to an rsync daemon or not? If you are running a daemon, run the *daemon* as "nice rsync --daemon" (how you run the client has no effect on how the daemon runs). If you're not running a daemon (even if you're running rsync via inetd), the "max connections" setting can have no effect because rsync isn't accepting the connections. In the case of using a remote shell for the transfer, make sure you've specified that nice is to be used on the remote rsync command by using the option --rsync-path='nice rsync' (again, the client's nice level doesn't affect commands on the remote host). > when i go to top on the backup server, i can see several instances of > rsync running Keep in mind that a daemon will have either one or two extra rsync processes in addition to the daemon when a transfer is active (1 = sending, 2 = receiving). Or see above for why the max connections option may not even be in effect. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html