Bruno Faria wrote:
> Thanks for the help Chris!
> 
> * Using the term job loosely here, as I personally have
>> $Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} = 8.
> 
> 
> Is backuppc nightly jobs heavy on RAM?
> 
> I would like to increase the amount of BackupPC nightly jobs, but right now
> all of my RAM and most of my swap is being used by BackupPC_Dump.

If you are actively using swap it will kill performance.  Rsync 
transfers hold the entire target directory in memory so it might help to 
break them up to smaller filesystem or directory levels or to reduce the 
number of concurrent runs.  Or add some RAM...

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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