On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 01:08:41PM -0400, Alex Alexiou wrote:
> A couple of my linux servers will occasionally see their CPU spiked by
> the "save" process during a backup. Killing the backup fixes this, but
> no one can figure out why it's happening, and it only happens
> occasionally (once every few weeks). We upgraded to 7.4.4 recently but
> it didn't solve our problem. Anyone else ever seen anything like this?

Ever run 'strace' on it to see what it was doing?

-- 
Darren

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