<div dir="ltr">Can you run vmstat or top while this is happening, and post the output here? Maybe it is wait for I/O and not really user or system CPU time?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Joe Wennechuk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:youcanreachmehere@hotmail.com" target="_blank">youcanreachmehere@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr">I am trying to rsync to an external drive on a running system; however, it is causing the processor to spike and bring down the webserver.<div><br></div><div>I tried</div><div>#> ionice -c3 -n19 rsync -vhr /dir/* /external/backup/ </div>
<div><br></div><div>but it still spikes the processor?</div> </div></div>
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