Jeremy Mann wrote at about 12:56:56 -0500 on Friday, September 11, 2009:
 > 
 > 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.
 > 
 > 

What version of rsync are you running on the client and server?

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