I have started using "mount -u -o snapshot" as part of my backup process
in order to have a week worth of local differential backups to allow
quick and easy recovery of lost/overwritten/etc files.
The snapshot of the partition (~250G and 2.3 million inodes used. ~10GB
of data change per day) takes around 10 minutes to complete. During the
first 5 minutes everything seems to be find, but during the second 5
minutes the Apache processes that are logging to this drive start
building up in L (logging) state until they hit MaxClients.
Is this just due to the very high io bandwidth usage associated with
making a snapshot, or does the creation of this snapshot completely
block IO writes for around 5 minutes?
Any suggested workarounds? I already bumped up the number of Apache
slots to 166% but it looks like I would have to increase the number much
more to use that as a primary solution.
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