Don,

The easiest way is to lower the priority of the amandad daemon that runs on 
the client. If you are using xinetd, you can just add a nice entry to the 
amandad service. If you are using BSD inetd, you can use the nice program; 
change the command from "amanda dgram udp wait 
amandabackup /usr/sbin/amandad" to "amanda dgram udp wait 
amandabackup /usr/bin/nice /usr/sbin/amandad"

Cheers,

--Ian

On Thursday 01 November 2007 13:33:16 Don Murray wrote:
> I have a user who is complaining that when amanda backups are running,
> the server he is access is 100% busy with gzipping the amanda backup
> that it is sending to the backup server and the server is too slow for
> him to do his stuff on.
>
> I've tried to look up how to configure the client but haven't found much
> information and there is no amanda.conf file installed by default with
> the RPMs I've been using.
>
> I'm using amanda-2.4.4p3-1.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion for how to lower the priority of the
> amanda client?  I'm also not sure if this is going to do it for him
> because I'm guessing he is being disk-limited not cpu-limited.  Any
> suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Don
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