Re: system load spike

2007-10-22 Thread Kent Tong
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Re: system load spike

2007-10-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 12:20:12AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/21/07 23:26, Kent Tong wrote: > > > > Carl Fink-4 wrote: > >> Why is a lower load important to you? > >> > >> Depending on the script you could introduce a "sleep 1" between each > >> compression step, which gives the system I/O

Re: system load spike

2007-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/21/07 23:26, Kent Tong wrote: > > Carl Fink-4 wrote: >> Why is a lower load important to you? >> >> Depending on the script you could introduce a "sleep 1" between each >> compression step, which gives the system I/O a chance to catch up. >> Ob

Re: system load spike

2007-10-21 Thread Kent Tong
it's difficult to insert "sleep" into there. - -- Kent Tong Wicket tutorials freely available at http://www.agileskills2.org/EWDW -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/system-load-spike-tf4668531.html#a13336609 Sent from the Debian User mailing list archive at

Re: system load spike

2007-10-21 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 08:40:46PM -0700, Kent Tong wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using a shell script to perform backup. Whenever it is launched, the > system load average > reaches 3-5 regularly. I am already launching it script using "nice -n 19". > The script is using > find, cpio and gzip. They sh

system load spike

2007-10-21 Thread Kent Tong
sing "gzip -1" so that it uses the least CPU. It is possible that the bottleneck is I/O, not CPU. Is there any way to reduce the system load? Thanks! - -- Kent Tong Wicket tutorials freely available at http://www.agileskills2.org/EWDW -- View this message in context: http://www.na