Ok, I added:

       nice                    = 15

to my /etc/xinetd.d/amanda configuration file and will see how that goes.

Thanks for the tip!

Don

Ian Turner wrote:

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