'qm list' hangs

[prometheanfire]

Well qm list hangs on listing VMs not much to say as I am going to be rebooting the server to fix it. On another note, a VM crashed at about the same time (I think, it was 2 AM).

[prometheanfire]

It looks like I had a lock because of backups (my backup took too long so my daily backups were clashing). Is there any way to increase the speed of the backup.

[tom]

where and how do you backup your VM´s?

[prometheanfire]

I back them up to an external HD via esata.

00 02 * * 2,4,6 root vzdump --quiet --bwlimit 1025024 --snapshot --compress --storage backup 101 103 104 105 108

I just added the bwlimit after I fixed everything.

It also used to be daily

[tom]

what speed do you get? (see the backup log, e.g. sent via email)

and provide detailed info about your hardware, raid controller setup, disks, results of pveperf and pveversion -v.

[prometheanfire]

I haven't gotten the email in a while so I do not know the speed. but here is the other data.

CPU BOGOMIPS: 42946.94
REGEX/SECOND: 1025785
HD SIZE: 94.49 GB (/dev/mapper/pve-root)
BUFFERED READS: 113.22 MB/sec
AVERAGE SEEK TIME: 10.34 ms
FSYNCS/SECOND: 2075.27
DNS EXT: 67.29 ms
DNS INT: 84.24 ms (mthode.org)

pve-manager: 1.5-8 (pve-manager/1.5/4674)
running kernel: 2.6.32-1-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.5-4
pve-kernel-2.6.32-1-pve: 2.6.32-4
pve-kernel-2.6.18-2-pve: 2.6.18-5
pve-kernel-2.6.24-5-pve: 2.6.24-6
pve-kernel-2.6.18-1-pve: 2.6.18-4
qemu-server: 1.1-11
pve-firmware: 1.0-3
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-10
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.23-1pve8
vzdump: 1.2-5
vzprocps: 2.0.11-1dso2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.11.1-2
ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-3

That might not mean much because all that is running on that raid array is PVE (no backups or VMs)
I have a 8 disk sata array and get 4-500MBps native.

lshw http://pastebin.com/M5V0J8R5

can I increase the speed of the virtio nics to gigabit?