Hello,
On 05.10.2005 15:30, Ed Clarke wrote:
I'm trying to make bacula run as fast as humanly possible. I'm about to
install a new
machine that only runs the bacula database on MySQL - no normal users
and as few
processes as possible. Can I put the bacula-dir process on this
machine without
suffering a severe hit?
I'd guess you can - as far as I can see, the only thing that makes the
DIR really use time is database access. With a database dedicated to it,
one of the two should always be running, and (currently) the DIR
database actions are never run in parallel. Even if the allover
throughput is a little lower than possible for the DIR and the DB alone,
the savings on network transit should more than make up for this.
OS will be linux on a machine with 2GB ram,
AMD Athlon
and two SATA drives - one of which is reserved to the bacula SQL database.
Just don't forget to tweak MySQL to actually use all this memory :-)
bacula-sd and the fd processes are on other machines.
By the way - if you want it as fast as possible you should consider
using more than one SATA disk for the database. A dedicated array of
striped hard disks should be better, especially if you give it lots of
cache memory, too. And, of course, you could try to use a dual-CPU
machine or even two machines with a really fast connection. Myrinet or
Infiniband, for example :-)
Arno
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