Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity 4.2.1 on CentOS 4.7 causing resource shortage on VPS

[Douglas Muth]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Marcus Clements
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I'm not surprised to hear grumbles about Dreamhost, the service seems
> pretty awful, but I'm interested to understand how the target server
> affects memory resource use on the originating server.
>

Yeah, I guess I should have elaborated on that. :-)

My experience with Dreamhost specifically revolved around massive
amounts of I/O wait.  Like, doing an "ls -l" would take some seconds,
and writing a file to disk would take even longer.

One possibility is that if Dreamhost were taking forever to write
files, the data to be written could be "piling up" on the source
machine, and causing the spike in memory. Not knowing the internals of
Duplicity, I could also be flat out wrong. :-)  Maybe the author of
Duplicity could shed some light on this idea.

-- Doug