On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Lists <lists at benjamindsmith.com> wrote: > > > Problem isn't so much actual "speed" but causing network monitors to > freak out due to "high" load average > when performing backups. So don't plug the USB into the server. Put them on some other machine and run the backup over the network. Network interfaces normally have some intelligence. > Seems silly that load average would climb to 2.x or more copying some > files on an otherwise lightly loaded server. Load is the count of processes waiting for CPU times. If you use an interface that takes all the CPU cycles to manage, what do you expect to happen? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com