[Hcoop-discuss] Unresponsive Server

[Davor Ocelic]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 07:58:23AM -0800, Adam Chlipala wrote:
> rob at hcoop.net wrote:
> 
> >Has any else noticed that fyodor becomes particularly unresponsive??
> >
> >It seems to happen most noticeably for me at night time (1AM - 4AM PST). 
> > 
> >
> This is the time when the back-up cron job runs, so that is almost 
> certainly what is slowing things down.  As far as I know, it's already 
> running with 'nice' (with no priority argument), but perhaps it a lower 
> priority would be a good idea?  The job already takes hours to complete. :-(
> 
> I'd also like to add that I've used these backups at least once so far, 
> which justifies their existence to me.  I/we still need to figure out 
> how to adjust our cron config to let a local NFS server/client 
> connection work, to present the backups to users.  Does anyone happen to 
> know what firewall rules we'd need for this?

The authoritative resource is Oreilly's Building Internet Firewalls
book. I'll dig out the rules for NFS these days and email them to you.