Jed Reynolds wrote: > Jed Reynolds wrote: >> Ugo Bellavance wrote: >> >>> >>> Can you send us the output of vmstat -n 5 5 >>> when you're doing a backup? >>> >> >> This is with rsync at bwlimit=2500 >> > > This is doing the same transfer with SSH. The load still climbs...and > then load drops. I think NFS is the issue. > > I wonder if my NFS connection settings in client fstabs are unwise? I > figured with beefy machine and fast networking, I could take advantage > of large packetsizes. Bad packet sizes? Are you backing up nfs to nfs? From where to where are you doing backups?