> I run a disk-to-disk copy every morning at 5am, invoked by cron. Every
> now
> and then, I see a drop in throughput (today it was from ~45 MB/s to ~34
> MB/s, from 5:01:30 to 5:08:30). How can I find out what's running at this
> time and slowing down the copy? I already found the stuff in
> /etc/crontab,
> and I moved that from 6:xx to 7:xx. I checked crontabs for root and eben
> (news has none), nothing about that time.
Deja vu. Wasn't this topic discussed earlier?
Anyway, you could set a cron job to do a ps aux > pre_dd_process_list.txt
before you do your dd to capture a snapshot of what's running and the CPU
utilization... just a thought.
v/r,
Rich Morgan
OpenAddict.com
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