> I have a 600GB GFS2 FS, and I resolved the issue with > rsync that I run > ionice -c3 rsync -av ... > That way rsync is given the CPU for IO, if all other > processes don't > require IO. Of course it takes a lot of time to compete > the sync, but > if the time is not an issue, it can be a solution. I tried it on some directories, it seems that the peeks in cpu are still present, but it seems not to affect the other nodes as before. I'm not that sure, since it was not 100% of the time I saw impact on other nodes. I will keep that trick in mind... -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster