On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 at 7:46pm, Kurt Raschke wrote > I've recently begun to have trouble with the Linux system that is my > amanda server...when amdump runs, the load spikes to between 4.00 and > 6.00, and the system becomes nearly unresponsive for the duration of > the backup. The server is backing up several local partitions, and > also two partitions on remote servers. I've tried starting amdump > with nice and setting it to a low priority, but when gtar and gzip are > started by amanda, the priority setting is somehow lost. The server > isn't even trying to back up multiple partitions in parallel, so I'm > at a loss as to how this is happening, especially on a fairly fast > server (dual Athlon MP 2000). > > Any suggestions? If you need to see the amanda logs or anything else > that would help, just ask.
Are these IDE disks? Make sure DMA is turned on... -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
