Hi Norbert,

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:34:57AM +0200, Norbert Schulze wrote:

> the BackupPC_nightly takes too much time. Is this too much data for this 
> server?
> 
> Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q9650  @ 3.00GHz
> Memory: 8GB
> 
> General Server Information
> The servers PID is 15477, on host BACKUPPC-Server, version 3.1.0, started at 
> 3/29 14:35. 
> This status was generated at 4/7 11:29. 
> The configuration was last loaded at 4/7 11:29. 
> PCs will be next queued at 4/7 12:00. 
> Other info: 
> 9 pending backup requests from last scheduled wakeup, 
> 0 pending user backup requests, 
> 10 pending command requests, 
> Uncompressed pool: 
> Pool is 357.26GB comprising 469442 files and 4369 directories (as of 4/6 
> 01:05), 
> Pool hashing gives 87 repeated files with longest chain 12, 
> Nightly cleanup removed 314 files of size 0.24GB (around 4/6 01:05), 
> Compressed pool: 
> Pool is 472.31GB comprising 5608440 files and 4369 directories (as of 4/6 
> 14:03), 
> Pool hashing gives 30090 repeated files with longest chain 8, 
> Nightly cleanup removed 7149 files of size 6.13GB (around 4/6 14:03), 
> Pool file system was recently at 29% (4/7 11:28), today's max is 29% (4/7 
> 01:00) and yesterday's max was 29
> 
> Currently Running Jobs
> 
> admin    4/7 01:00  BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127  5259   
> admin1   4/7 01:00  BackupPC_nightly 128 255  5260  

take a look at what

vmstat 10

prints (ignore the first line). It will show you the I/O load of the
system. What kind of storage are you using? Maybe it is saturated, then
you might want to try not running BackupPC_nightly in parallel since it
is I/O bound.

HTH,

Tino.

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