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

[Marcus Clements]

2009/3/4 Douglas Muth <address@hidden>:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Marcus Clements
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> Target filesystem is a shared webspace provided by Dreamhosters which
>> seems to be ext3
>>
> [snip]
>
> I hate to bash someone you're doing business with, but Dreamhost may
> be part of the problem.  Back when I did business with them, their SAN
> lagged on a near daily basis.  It was so bad, that I'd regularly see
> load averages over *200*.
>
> You may want to try backing up to a different destination and see what
> happens.  Maybe get a cheap VPS from Linode or Slicehost and try using
> that as a target for awhile?
>
> -- Doug
>
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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.

It's an interesting thought. I don't have another big space for a full
backup but I could try backing up some data to another server at a
different time of day and see how that goes.

Marcus