Les Mikesell wrote:
> Andrew Libby wrote:
>>> There are a lot of files on the system, and backups take
>> quite a while so I upped the timeout to 40 hrs, but
>> backups seem to be failing now in under 20 hrs when they
>> were failing at the 20 hr mark.
>>
>> Any hints or suggestions are greatly apprecaiated.  Other
>> info that might be helpful:
>>
>> Both client and server are ubuntu 8.04.
>> Transport is rsync.  Client has about 6.5 million files.
> 
> One possibility is a corrupted file system. Have you done an fsck 
> recently?  That's also a lot of files to process in one run.  Rsync 
> loads the whole directory tree in RAM and becomes extremely slow if you 
> go into swap.
> 

Hi Les,

So we calculated it and the ram comes to under a gig.  We've
got 4G of ram.  The system does not seem to swap when
processing a backup.   fsck also seems to be in good standing.

Thanks for the suggestions,

Andy



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