Re: cp load average

[Mohit Muthanna <mohit@muthanna.com>]

You can use nice(1) to prioritize your processes. OTOH, if the processor
load (vmstat) is abnormally high, you may want to check out DMA settings
on the hard disks. I often noticed this to be the reason for a lot of
performance problems during copying, tarring, etc. large files.

does anybody know if hdparam runs on openbsd? ... or if there's a clone?

Mohit.

On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 08:09, Condor wrote:
> Hello,
> i see in my server with obsd i386 3.2
> that when i copy one file with 600 MB or more, my server load average is
bring up:
> #cp some_file /mnt/hdd2
> --- paste ---
> # w
>  5:11PM  up 8 days, 20:39, 1 user, load averages: 28.35, 13.29, 6.79
> USER    TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> root     p0 ixip.net          4:46PM     0 w
> --- end ---
> any body have idea how i configure my system that my cp (mv) to give low CPU
resources? Because in this variant some services stop work like sendmail or
worked very slowly.
>
> Regards,
> Condor
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Mohit Muthanna <mohit AT muthanna DOT com>
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