Have you checked network speed and duplex? - Si
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 17:09 -0400, Matthew Butt wrote: > > Matt> I have two identical Win 2k3 servers (Dell PowerEdge 2800, > U320 > > RAID5, > > Matt> dual P4 Xeon 2.8) that I need to backup data onto an FC3 > server > > running > > Matt> Bacula (P4 2.8GHz, USB2 HDD). All three machines have Gigabit > > cards > > Matt> running on a Gigabit switch with appropriate Cat5e cables. > > > > Matt> Server1 has two files totaling 5Gb. Bacula grabs these files > at > > about > > Matt> 25MB/sec - total backup time is under 4mins. > > Matt> Server2 has ~4000 files totaling 100Gb. The problem is that > > Bacula is > > Matt> only running at about 50Kb/sec for this server - simple maths > > tells us > > Matt> that it's going to take 3.5 weeks to backup the entire server! > > > > Matt> There's obviously something awry here - can anyone give me any > > ideas > > Matt> what to look into? The networking between the machines all > appears > > to be > > Matt> fine (I can pull off large files between the Win 2k3 servers > at > > around > > Matt> 30MB/sec) so it seems to be something to do with the Bacula > FD. > > > > I would start by looking at the Processes tab of the Task Manager on > > Server2 > > during the backup to see what % of the CPU bacula-fd is getting and if > > anything else is running. > > The bacula-fd process on Server2 is using at most about 2%. Mem usage > is very low (3Mb). Nothing else is using the processor or disks > intensively on that machine at the moment and bconsole is reporting > about 3MB/sec transfer (speed changes wildly it seems, but never very > fast!) > > The bacula server is running around 5-15% for bacula-sd. Again, nothing > much else is happening on that server, load average: 0.21, 0.12, 0.09. > > Is there any profiling I can run on the Windows FD client, or at least > see a file-by-file progress? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes > Want to be the first software developer in space? > Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt12&alloc_id344&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Simon Weller Systems Engineer, LPIC-2 Education Networks of America 1101 McGavock St. Nashville TN 37203 Direct Line: 615.312.6068 Network Operations Center: 1.800.836.4357 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
