Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] rsync process load on vcs

[Ward Vandewege]

Hi Karl,

On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 04:09:09PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
> When I looked at vcs this morning, the load average was around 15.  I
> just ran top, and it was because of this rsync job, which had already
> been running for over an hour (the start time is UTC today):
> 
> USER       PID  PPID %CPU %MEM   RSS    VSZ STAT  NI  STARTED COMMAND
> root     25624 25618  2.0  0.7 43936  73600 Ds     0 12:22:12 rsync
> --server --sender -lHogDtpAXre.iLsf --timeout=3600 --ignore-errors
> --numeric-ids . /

Yep, that's our system backup job. It started at 12:22 UTC and finished at
14:18 UTC, today.

> The final . / on the command makes me wonder if it is some kind of
> system backup.  Ward, could that be it?  And if so, could you please
> adjust it to run with nice -19 :)?

Sure thing, done.

Thanks,
Ward.

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