FC11 - KVM based VM become halt after heavy rsync

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Wed Sep 2 03:02:57 UTC 2009


On 09-09-01 16:11:56, Mohammad Mateen Aslam wrote:
 ...
> yes i am doing also doing --delete and --exclude some directories 
> from a list. Here is command i am using
> 
> rsync -e ssh -l bkp-user -avR --delete --exclude-from=${EXCLUDES}

I don't see anything that would use extra memory, though usually the 
options will precede the source, and ssh is the default for -e.

 ...
> I have taken very big backups in past on xen based VM's. 
> Chocking Network due to heavy rsync is something amazing for me. 

I think that is just a side effect of your VM running out of memory.  
Running out of memory is what you need to fix.  Did the Xen VMs have 
the more memory?

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