Aaron Knister wrote: > During the job run an "iostat -k 2" and tell me what the iowait > percentage is. i've been using top, and the elevated load does positively correlate to iowait > If it's over 20% it is > you have a disk bottleneck and the CPU is waiting on the disk to > write/read data which will jack up your load. i have a raid 0 with write cache enabled... i may have to find another solution... should i just disable data/attribute spooling? > It's also possible that the calculation of md5 sigs is adding a bit of > CPU overhead. yeah... i thought so, but the docs recommend using md5 sigs so i left it in the config > What is the average speed of your jobs (in terms of MB/s) during this > high load? 30 MB/s > > -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 >> >> >
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