Re: [BackupPC-users] OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?

2007-01-08 Thread Jason Hughes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I routinely hit 100% CPU utilization on the Via C3 1GHz Mini-ITX systems I use as backup servers. I will grant you that the C3 is not the most efficient processor, but I am definitely CPU-limited. I too have 512MB RAM, but the machines are not swapping. And that's

Re: [BackupPC-users] OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?

2007-01-03 Thread David Rees
On 1/2/07, Jason Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good recommendations, Holger. I would add that niceing a process only changes its scheduling affinity, but does not modify in any way its hard disk activity or DMA priority, so until the original poster understands what exactly makes the server

Re: [BackupPC-users] OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?

2007-01-02 Thread Jason Hughes
Holger Parplies wrote: Paul Harmor wrote on 01.01.2007 at 20:51:43 [[BackupPC-users] OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?]: I have only 2 machines (at the moment) being backed up, but every time the backups start, the server system slows to an UNUSEABLE crawl

[BackupPC-users] OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?

2007-01-01 Thread Paul Harmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running a 1.3Gig Duron, 512 DDR, LVM and 2x160GB drives, on Ubuntu 6.10. I have only 2 machines (at the moment) being backed up, but every time the backups start, the server system slows to an UNUSEABLE crawl, until I can, slowly, start top, and

Re: [BackupPC-users] OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?

2007-01-01 Thread John Pettitt
Paul Harmor wrote: I'm running a 1.3Gig Duron, 512 DDR, LVM and 2x160GB drives, on Ubuntu 6.10. I have only 2 machines (at the moment) being backed up, but every time the backups start, the server system slows to an UNUSEABLE crawl, until I can, slowly, start top, and renice the 4 backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?

2007-01-01 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi (or ok, hi), Paul Harmor wrote on 01.01.2007 at 20:51:43 [[BackupPC-users] OK, how about changing the server's backuppc process niceness?]: I'm running a 1.3Gig Duron, 512 DDR, LVM and 2x160GB drives, on Ubuntu 6.10. while that's a nice start and possibly hints at a memory bottleneck