Hi Rich, On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 19:28 +0100, Rich Walker wrote: > Andree Leidenfrost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi Rich, > > > > On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 15:32 +0100, Rich Walker wrote: > >> [...] > >> >> The machine in question has 2GB of ram, and is currently running at a > >> >> load of 4.6, and around 100% CPU usage. > >> >> > >> >> The main mondoarchive process is using 617MB of virtual memory, of which > >> >> 252MB is swapped out. > >> >> > >> >> It has now been running for a few days (984minutes CPU time), and is > >> >> assembling DVD #5. The "Time remaining" indicator is -14331:-52 !
Looks like there is definitely something wrong with the "Time remaining" indicator. I'll see whether I can look into this. > >> > What is the load and memory usage _without_ mondoarchive running? What > >> > CPU is this? Also, what version of mindi and mondo are you running > >> > currently? > >> > >> Still fairly heavy. At present, it's > >> top - 15:24:20 up 30 days, 2:24, 6 users, load average: 2.07, 3.41, 3.98 > >> Tasks: 277 total, 1 running, 275 sleeping, 1 stopped, 0 zombie > >> Cpu(s): 14.5% us, 7.2% sy, 0.0% ni, 74.0% id, 3.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 1.0% > >> si > >> Mem: 2077192k total, 2021348k used, 55844k free, 38432k buffers > >> Swap: 1919548k total, 1226364k used, 693184k free, 1042008k cached > > > > Hm, it's using quite some swap but not too much CPU. Why is the load so > > high if CPU usage is quite low (or is this just the snapshot)? > > Load is high on that machine for a variety of reasons. Typically it's > supporting 4 or 5 users with VNC and direct logins. Well, if load is high, mondoarchive will take longer to run. > > Also, what type of CPU, how many, what frequency would be good to know. > > Athlon *somethingorother* with a 1.3GHz clock. So, that's an Athlon XP then. That is not very fast at all. > [...] > > Cool. Also you may want to try without compression '-0'. > > Does it still compress the attribute files if compression is turned off? Removing attr and acl should keep this files from being created in the first place (unless I am mistaken). Otherwise I believe that -0 only turns compression of the afio files of. You may want to try though. > Also, the process of sorting out the files before it even gets to the > DVD stage takes hours as well... Well, it needs to compile the list of files to archive, if the machine is flat out and it's a lot of stuff to comb through, it will take a long time. Basically you have a low spec system with high load and you want to archive a lot of data/files. mondoarchive will take a long time to run, this as such is not a bug. You may be better off with what I suggested in my original response to your bug report: >>>> From the logs, I can see that mondoarchive thinks it will need 35 DVDs to back up your data, which is approximately 150GB. Mondo Rescue is really more of a disaster recovery tool rather than a backup utility. So, in general, what I would suggest is that you use Mondo Rescue for backing up your system only so that you have bootable restore media but that you use a normal backup tool to backup your actual data. (You may bascially want to add /big to your -E parameter.) <<<< What do you think? Best regards, Andree > [...] -- Andree Leidenfrost Sydney - Australia
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