On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 07:52:22PM -0500, Bruno Faria wrote:

> * Using the term job loosely here, as I personally have
> > $Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} = 8.
> 
> Is backuppc nightly jobs heavy on RAM?

Not so much.

> I would like to increase the amount of BackupPC nightly jobs, but right now
> all of my RAM and most of my swap is being used by BackupPC_Dump.

First check the I/O load of your system (e.g. using iostat). The nightly
job is heavy on I/O and doesn't need a lot of CPU. If your I/O system is
saturated, you'll gain almost nothing by running nightly jobs in
parallel - you might actually slow down the dumps considerably.

Tino.

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