bleary Posted March 11, 2013 Report Share Posted March 11, 2013 I would consider chronically overloading and periodically crashing our server to be a problem. Here are some random screen shots from a period of a couple of minutes. I couldn't catch the processes when they were both at their peak. I believe Retrospect is trying to do something at the moment, but I have seen this retroISA using up to and over 100% of the CPU when Retrospect is not doing anything as far as I can tell. What the heck is it and what is it up to? This is on an XServe 2x2.26 GHz Quad-Core Xeon, 6 GB RAM Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scillonian Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 RetroISA is Retrospect Instant Scan. This periodically scans the volumes for changes so come the time for the backup job a scan is not required so saving time. That's the theory anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 The 10.1 beta seems to address some of the big client CPU hit. It's worth testing on your end... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bleary Posted March 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 The 10.1 beta seems to address some of the big client CPU hit. It's worth testing on your end... That rang a bell. They sent me a link to 10.1 beta awhile ago because of another issue. I just double-checked, and that is the version that is running with these high CPU hits. 10.1.0 (187) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bleary Posted March 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 Just found the server quite unresponsive and had to force reboot it. Checked the activity monitor, and the Retrospect Engine is currently at 200% CPU usage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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