-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/21/07 23:26, Kent Tong wrote: > > Carl Fink-4 wrote: >> Why is a lower load important to you? >> >> Depending on the script you could introduce a "sleep 1" between each >> compression step, which gives the system I/O a chance to catch up. >> Obviously you could also vary the "1" as needed. >> > > Thanks for the reply. We have a performance monitoring system and that > high system load is triggering quite some alerts. The backup is basically > done in a single command pipeline: > > find -L $SRCROOT -xdev -size -50G | \ > cpio -o -H tar | \ > gzip -c -1 > $DSTPATH > > Therefore it's difficult to insert "sleep" into there.
If this script happens every night at the same time, and lasts for a predictable amount of time, then during that time span you could change the alert threshold to 6. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHHDMMS9HxQb37XmcRAjQuAJ0eFCU6M7kI7xJUm96zuk7rJBnUUQCbB4a2 dOsD6WJuinjt3byXaEjBuDM= =hfqp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
