Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity 4.2.1 on CentOS 4.7 causing resource shortage on VPS

[Marcus Clements]

There certainly is a spike in the number of processes when the backup runs:
http://brightonart.eu/images/processes-week.png

Marcus

2009/3/4 Douglas Muth <address@hidden>:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Marcus Clements
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not surprised to hear grumbles about Dreamhost, the service seems
>> pretty awful, but I'm interested to understand how the target server
>> affects memory resource use on the originating server.
>>
>
> Yeah, I guess I should have elaborated on that. :-)
>
> My experience with Dreamhost specifically revolved around massive
> amounts of I/O wait.  Like, doing an "ls -l" would take some seconds,
> and writing a file to disk would take even longer.
>
> One possibility is that if Dreamhost were taking forever to write
> files, the data to be written could be "piling up" on the source
> machine, and causing the spike in memory. Not knowing the internals of
> Duplicity, I could also be flat out wrong. :-)  Maybe the author of
> Duplicity could shed some light on this idea.
>
> -- Doug
>
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