[Xapian-discuss] Is the wiki down?

[James Aylett]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:01:54AM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:

> I've noticed it gets pretty loaded sometimes after midnight UK time.  If
> there are times at which I should avoid running the snapshot build cron
> job, let me know when.  It does already do a load average test before
> starting, but maybe it's not conservative enough, or else the load
> climbs after the build has begun.

You could check for the file /var/run/dobackup; if that exists then
we're doing either a full or an incremental backup, which will at
least touch all the inode directories across the disks. I suspect that
causes it most of the time.

J

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