Hi, I installed a new disk to my small home server in order to have a backup of the previous disk. The backup is intended to run during late night hours using rsync.
First time, I rsynced some system directories to the second disk and it worked quickly. Now, I'm trying to rsync a big encrypted data partition to another (almost same size) encrypted data partition in the second disk. And speed is abysmal. # iostat tin tout KB/t t/s MB/s KB/t t/s MB/s KB/t t/s MB/s KB/t t/s MB/s us ni sy in id 0 10 42.13 16 0.66 42.39 11 0.46 63.10 9 0.56 63.86 7 0.41 1 0 6 7 86 Both data partitions are using softraid, like `bioctl -c C -l /dev/sdx.k softraid0` # top PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE WAIT TIME CPU COMMAND 11587 root 64 0 5700K 1708K run/0 - 264:28 51.07% rsync Which seems to me as a very high cpu usage for a simple `rsync -a` command, no gzipped. Both disks are SATA, 1TB, Samsung. Origin: SAMSUNG HD103UJ Destiny: SAMSUNG HD103SJ sd2 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: <OPENBSD, SR CRYPTO, 005> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd2: 922747MB, 512 bytes/sector, 1889787792 sectors softraid0: volume sd2 is roaming, it used to be sd1, updating metadata syncing disks... done My system: OpenBSD 5.2-current (GENERIC.MP) #107: Mon Nov 19 12:58:00 MST 2012 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP cpu0: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.60 GHz Why does this happen? What can I do to improve the crawling speed? -- Luis P. Mendes