slow / unresponsive during backups

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Paul Hinett

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Nov 19, 2012, 7:38:52 AM11/19/12
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I am noticing my raven server becomes very slow / unresponsive during a
full backup, it takes about 30-60 minutes to finish the backup.

The memory is already floating around 25 - 28gb out of 32, but when
backup is taking place it goes up to 30+.

Is this to be expected, is there a way that raven could reduce the
amount of memory it's allowed to use during a backup?

Paul

Oren Eini (Ayende Rahien)

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Nov 19, 2012, 12:45:15 PM11/19/12
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Are you doing full / incremental backup?
What build? What DB size? To the same disk, another disk?

Paul Hinett

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Nov 20, 2012, 8:02:59 AM11/20/12
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On 19 November 2012 17:45:15, Oren Eini (Ayende Rahien) wrote:
> Are you doing full / incremental backup?
> What build? What DB size? To the same disk, another disk?
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Hinett
> <pa...@ukcreativedesigns.com <mailto:pa...@ukcreativedesigns.com>> wrote:
>
> I am noticing my raven server becomes very slow / unresponsive
> during a full backup, it takes about 30-60 <tel:30-60> minutes to
> finish the backup.
>
> The memory is already floating around 25 - 28gb out of 32, but
> when backup is taking place it goes up to 30+.
>
> Is this to be expected, is there a way that raven could reduce the
> amount of memory it's allowed to use during a backup?
>
> Paul
>
>

full backups.
build 2149
40gb database size
to same disk

Will try to another disk to see if this helps.


Oren Eini (Ayende Rahien)

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Nov 20, 2012, 8:04:01 AM11/20/12
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It is likely that during the backup, you are saturating the entire IO bandwidth for the disk.
Can you try backing up to a different drive? Can you do incremental backups?

Paul Hinett

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Nov 20, 2012, 8:05:24 AM11/20/12
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On 20 November 2012 13:04:01, Oren Eini (Ayende Rahien) wrote:
> It is likely that during the backup, you are saturating the entire IO
> bandwidth for the disk.
> Can you try backing up to a different drive? Can you do incremental
> backups?
>
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Paul Hinett
> <pa...@ukcreativedesigns.com <mailto:pa...@ukcreativedesigns.com>> wrote:
>
> On 19 November 2012 <tel:2012> 17:45:15, Oren Eini (Ayende Rahien)
> wrote:
>
> Are you doing full / incremental backup?
> What build? What DB size? To the same disk, another disk?
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 <tel:2012> at 2:38 PM, Paul Hinett
> <pa...@ukcreativedesigns.com
> <mailto:pa...@ukcreativedesigns.com>
> <mailto:paul@__ukcreativedesigns.com
> <mailto:pa...@ukcreativedesigns.com>>> wrote:
>
> I am noticing my raven server becomes very slow / unresponsive
> during a full backup, it takes about 30-60 <tel:30-60>
> <tel:30-60 <tel:30-60>> minutes to
>
> finish the backup.
>
> The memory is already floating around 25 - 28gb out of 32, but
> when backup is taking place it goes up to 30+.
>
> Is this to be expected, is there a way that raven could
> reduce the
> amount of memory it's allowed to use during a backup?
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> full backups.
> build 2149 <tel:2149>
> 40gb database size
> to same disk
>
> Will try to another disk to see if this helps.
>
>
>

Yes makes sense, i'll give it a try later after i've got this initial
problem sorted of restoring my db.

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