I have around 60-70 website hosted on single server. in the night when backups for these sites start, my server becomes somewhat very slow as the backup takes most of the resources. is there way to limit the speed of backup or limit the resources it can use, so that it runs in the background without effecting the speed of the server. thanks.
There is no option for that in ISPConfig. But I agree that it would ne nice to have e.g. nice or ionice added in the backup command to limit bandwidth
On one server we used a program called cpulimit in that case for a pid but think it could be used for a specific name as well. Not sure if that could be used for ispconfig or not though
I guess ionice and nice commands will suit better here as cpulimit would limit the whoöe web user (so the sitesd will be slow) or the root user, which would be even worse.
Ok, yes I wasn't sure how the backup task gets created or if it was a script. If it was a specific task with pid cpulimit could be used.
you can install pigz and set the no of used processors in server/lib/classes/cron.d/500-backup and 500-backup_mail -p --processes n Allow up to n processes (default is the number of online processors) i'm not sure if this will reduce the load on your server but it makes a difference, if you just 2 instead of 8 cpus.
Hi Florian will it still not use more Ram/Memory if cpu number is restricted or ram usage will also decrease. or you mean if I have 8core I can assign 4 cores. so that speed will increase. Thanks
