During the job run an "iostat -k 2" and tell me what the iowait percentage is. If it's over 20% you have a disk bottleneck and the CPU is waiting on the disk to write/read data which will jack up your load. It's also possible that the calculation of md5 sigs is adding a bit of CPU overhead. What is the average speed of your jobs (in terms of MB/s) during this high load?
-Aaron Mike Seda wrote: > Wow... On my server running bacula-sd and bacula-dir, the load average > can get as high as 9.2 when doing full backups of certain machines... > Any thoughts as to why? > Server specs: > Dell PE 2650 (2 x 3.06 GHz Xeon 32-bit single-core) > PX502 LTO-3 FC AutoChanger > RHEL 4 AS > bacula 2.0.1 i386 (via rpm) > data spooling (350 GB) to RAID 0 (3 x 146 GB SCSI) > md5 sig option in FileSet > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
