-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Take a look at netstat and see if you have transfer errors on your interface. If you have a lot of collisions or io errors, I suggest you may have your speed/duplex set wrong as compared to your switch.
Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > I monitored a machine tonight. > This is a self-backup machine running both the server and the fd, still > on a sparc 280r. > The avarage throughput is 1Mb/sec, while the network backup of another > fd is 4Mb/sec. > While the machine was backing-up itself, I used "top" to see the machine > status. > It was 4% of CPU load, with 3% assigned to postgres (I use postgres as > the bacula db). > Then there was 0.5% for bacula-sd and 0.5% for bacula-fd. > Maybe I should use some sort of buffering on bacula? > > <http://www.sonicle.com> > Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. > Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 > Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY > http://www.sonicle.com > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Da: Hristo Benev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A: Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Data: 18 luglio 2006 16.43.04 CEST > Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup on Sparc SunFire 280R > > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 16:37 +0200, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > > Do you have any suggestion about parameters I may use to optimize the > > daemons? > > > I'm not a developer :( ... unfortunately --> but you need to see where > is the problem (due high CPU usage; low available RAM etc..) to ask for > optimizations. > > Furthermore I do not have sparc machines in my setup to give you > comparison data. > > > > Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. > > Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 > > Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY > > http://www.sonicle.com > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > Da: Hristo Benev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > A: Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bacula- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Data: 18 luglio 2006 16.32.54 CEST > > Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup on Sparc SunFire 280R > > > > My opinion is that you have bottleneck somewhere (probably CPU > > or RAM, > > network). > > You need to monitor those machines during backup to see where > > exactly. > > > > > > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:53 +0200, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > > > When the sparc machine are just clients, I may achieve > > 2-4Mb/sec > > > When these machines are both servers and clients (backup > > themselves), > > > often I achieve less then 1Mb!! > > > > > > > > > Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. > > > Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 > > > Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY > > > http://www.sonicle.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > Da: Hristo Benev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > A: Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Cc: MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bacula- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Data: 18 luglio 2006 15.43.15 CEST > > > Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup on Sparc SunFire > > 280R > > > > > > Just to exclude network! > > > > > > What is the transfer rate that you can achieve with those > > > servers? > > > > > > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:37 +0200, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > > > > Oh no. I do not use compression at all. > > > > And if I'd use compression, I'd use hardware one. > > > > I don't think it's a problem of compression. > > > > I have this problem only on sparc machines. > > > > And they slow down the entire network backup during the > > > night > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. > > > > Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 > > > > Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - > > ITALY > > > > http://www.sonicle.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > Da: Hristo Benev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > A: Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Cc: MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bacula- > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Data: 18 luglio 2006 15.16.37 CEST > > > > Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup on Sparc SunFire > > > 280R > > > > > > > > Do you use compression, because You have difference in > > > > processing power > > > > Sparc III is much less powerful than Opteron? > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 13:58 +0200, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > > > > > Yes, it's a network backup. The SunFire is running the > > > FD. > > > > > The server is running on a v20z. > > > > > This server backup many other machines, but no other > > one > > > is > > > > running > > > > > that slow. > > > > > I usually achieve 5-8MB/s both on Windows clients and > > > other > > > > solaris 10 > > > > > platforms (x86/amd). > > > > > May it be that the compiled agent for SPARC has some > > > > problem? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. > > > > > Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 > > > > > Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - > > > ITALY > > > > > http://www.sonicle.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Da: MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > A: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > > > Data: 18 luglio 2006 13.22.13 CEST > > > > > Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup on Sparc > > SunFire > > > > 280R > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 7/14/06, Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > I have some bacula installations on SunFire 280R Sparc > > > > > machines, with Solaris 10. > > > > > These machines apperar to be very very slow with > > > > > respect to other installations (such as v20z) with > > > > > same LTO2 device. > > > > > As you can see from the report, 60Gb are copied in 9 > > > > > hours, with an avarage rate of 1898.9 KB/s! > > > > > On a v20z, the same amount of data is done in 5 hours > > > > > or less, with an avarage a rate of 3139.2 KB/s.. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Are you talking about local backups, i.e. both your > > > bacula- > > > > fd > > > > > and bacula-sd are running on the same server, or there > > is > > > a > > > > > network in between? 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