On 6/20/11, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote: > I have noticed that only around the 4am-4:15 time frame when the trim is > happening does my > other process log connection attempts but my process (forking and > opening databases) is not responding in time to give data back > to the connecting process. Not critically important as it just tries > again and all ok... I was having similar problems with a script crawling through thousands of small files. As suggested by others here, using ionice appeared to have made a world of difference. On top of that, since it's your own script and since speed isn't critical, you could insert breaks after every x files to allow other processes time to run.