[ale] usb drives suck

[Brian Pitts]

On 01/25/2010 02:34 PM, Geoffrey wrote:
> I don't get that either.  Right now, load average is 7.5, 6.49, 4.6
> I'm running an rsync of /home to an external usb drive.
> 
> I guarantee you, once it finishes, load average will drop below 1.
> 

If you rsynced home to another internal drive, maybe you'd see similar
load. Probably this is causing lots of seeks on the drive hosting /home.
You could try using ionice to run rsync with idle priority.

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All the best,
Brian Pitts