Dan Pritts wrote:

> if you're using rsync as the transport, rsync memory requirement
> scales with the number of files.  if rsync is swapping on the backup
> client,
> that won't be good.  So splitting it could help.
>
> however, it'd be a lose if multiple jobs tried to run in parallel to
> this same backup client.

I figured something like this was happening because any time it is in the
backup rotation, rsync starts using all 2GB of memory and about 3GB of
swap. So this in effect slows everything else down. I was actually shocked
when I came in this morning and saw all 28 servers were done.


-- 
Jeremy Mann
jeremy AT biochem.uthscsa DOT edu

University of Texas Health Science Center
Bioinformatics Core Facility
http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu
Phone: (210) 567-2672


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