Re: machine responsiveness with centos 5.1

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Jerry Geis wrote:
every other day I do full backups to both a second internal disk and an external usb disk.

I am using a fully up to date centos 5.1 AMD 64 X2 6400+ machine. with SATA disks.
using an NVIDIA chipset,

when I do a full rsync the responsiveness of my machine suffers. Slow on the internal disk and really slow on external usb.
doing "top" shows 0% idle but only 17% CPU usage by the rsync command.

I am stunned that a 6400+ machine dual core can get this sluggish when doing a copy to disk.
Is there something I potentially have not set right?

dmesg shows my SATA disks at UDMA133 and 1.5 Gbps.

THanks,

Jerry
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Hi

I would recommend you install the systat rpm and then use sar and iostat commands to see if you can identify where the bottleneck is occurring.

Have a nice day

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