On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 01:03:18PM +0200, Norbert Schulze wrote:

> > Or just post the output of "vmstat 10 10"
> 
> root@server:~# vmstat 10 10
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
>  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
>  0  5  14764 6196504 687296 202744    0    0     6     1    1    5  2  1 78 18
>  0  5  14764 6184340 688156 214168    0    0  8072    52 1729 1947  2  1 27 69
>  0  5  14764 6175044 687184 224784    0    0  8106   438 2160 2618  3  2 26 69
>  0  7  14764 6154740 686712 235600    0    0  8297    28 1638 1814  3  1 16 80
>  0  7  14764 6145812 688652 243052    0    0  8054   109 1602 1744  2  1 14 84
>  2  8  14764 6136036 687120 253580    0    0  8205   170 1782 1997  3  1 16 80
>  0  5  14764 6132008 687580 266112    0    0  7783    59 1546 1659  3  1 17 79
>  0  6  14764 6123984 687284 275172    0    0  7940    30 1756 2008  2  1 29 67
>  0  6  14764 6117016 688716 281068    0    0  7420   340 1590 1753  2  1 21 77
>  0  6  14764 6108932 688092 289396    0    0  8068   105 1896 2182  3  1 24 73

Your I/O system seems saturated (70-80% of time is spent waiting for
I/O). Try running only one BackupPC_nightly in parallel.

Tino.

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