This is way beyond my level of expertise, but wouldn't something like ionice help with that?
Also, check out: 2 more pipe utilities Viewer & throttle http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml Throttle - limits bandwidth of a pipe - for use with network transfers http://linux.die.net/man/1/throttle HTH Joe On 04/03/2014 07:41 AM, Marian Marinov wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using rsync on some backup servers for years. In 2011 we had > a situation where the FS of the backup server was behaving strange, > even thou there was enough available I/O, the fs(ext4 on 16TB > partition with a lot of inodes) was lagging. After much testing we > found that rsync was hammering the fs too hard. > > At that point I patched rsync to add a stupid option which will sleep > for a while before creating new file. > That helped us a lot to keep the same rate of concurrent rsyncs to the > same machine. > > I would love your comments on this, generally stupid approach to the > problem :) > > Best regards, > Marian > > > > -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html