Re: [CentOS] Re: rsync and swapping

2008-01-31 Thread Robert
Scott Silva wrote: on 1/30/2008 5:24 AM Jerry Geis spake the following: hi all, I use rsync to copy/backup ALL my stuff to another disk. When I run this seems like my machine (4 GIG ram centos 5.1) now begins to swap out more programs. Is there a way to reduce that swapping? I am running wit

Re: [CentOS] Re: rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread Toby Bluhm
Scott Silva wrote: on 1/30/2008 5:24 AM Jerry Geis spake the following: hi all, I use rsync to copy/backup ALL my stuff to another disk. When I run this seems like my machine (4 GIG ram centos 5.1) now begins to swap out more programs. Is there a way to reduce that swapping? I am running with

RE: [CentOS] Re: rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread Christian Volker
Yohoo! >Rsync's main benefit is on backups of changed files. dumping to a new >destination every time makes rsync less efficient than just about every >other >option. >Now if you made the new directory, and hardlinked the old stuff to the new >directory, then rsync would shine. That's what rsn

[CentOS] Re: rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread Scott Silva
on 1/30/2008 5:24 AM Jerry Geis spake the following: hi all, I use rsync to copy/backup ALL my stuff to another disk. When I run this seems like my machine (4 GIG ram centos 5.1) now begins to swap out more programs. Is there a way to reduce that swapping? I am running with echo 1 > /proc/sys/v