This is about what I would expect. Eventhough you are using the SAN agent, you could be still using the IP stack internal to the machine to get the data from the client to the SAN agent. And, if this is TDP for Exchange or TDP for SQL, there is even more CPU overhead. Without more information, I can not analyze what could be driving up the CPU. The other piece is the type of disk technology you have attached and are you using client compression. I would not be surprised if you get no improvement by adding the additional CPUs. If your average was 90 to 100, then yes, but likely not for 70 to 90.
Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Northrop Grumman Information Technology 757-688-8180 -----Original Message----- From: Martinez, Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 10:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Image backup CPU time. First some stats about the servers involved TSM Server- Windows 2000 TSM Server-Ver 5.1.1 TSM Client Windows 2K- 2CPU's@700MHz each 1Gig of RAM TSM Client Version-5.1.1 with SAN Agent. When I do an image snapshot backup on the client the CPU Averages around 70-90%. Is this normal? Will adding 2 more CPU Alleviate this problem and improve performance. I am using 2 LTO Drives to do this backup and I am averaging around 32MB/sec. Any help will be appreciated. Thank You, Matt Martinez NT System Administrator IDEXX Laboratories, Inc 207-856-0656 Fax:207-856-8320 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
