This is what I use in a bash script for a Grails autobuild process: _______________________________________________________________ #!/bin/sh
# Lower the cpu priority on this and all spawned process. renice +19 -p $$ &> /dev/null # Lower the IO priority ionice -c2 -n7 -p $$ &> /dev/null # Any commands here are run at low priority grails war ____________________________________________________________ It free's the server up quite nicely but is not remote. You could create a wrapper script so that the real rdiff-backup is called with this configuration. Cheers Gavin iCy-fLaME wrote: > Hi, > > I am use rdiff-backup from an remote server: > > rdiff-backup [email protected]::/remote/backup/path /local/backup/path > > The remote content only changes once a day, so I can have all day to > do my backup, without worrying about content inconsistency. It usually > completes within an hour anyway. > > However, I am conscious that the rdiff-backup daemon in the remote > server is using up quite a bit of CPU cycles. It is a rather busy > server for it's limited hardware, I can see measurable impact on over > all service performance during the backup. > > I am wondering if there is a way to run the remote rdiff-backup daemon > in nice 19, for example, to reduce the stress it puts on the server. > > I would prefer not initiate the backup from the remote server, because > the backup target host(s) address changes rather frequently. > > Thanks! > > > > iCy > > > _______________________________________________ > rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki > > _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
