In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > First off, throw your assumptions away. You're assuming that Bacula
Ummm... please low down a bit. > should be able to run at the same speed as the disk. Turn off compression > and see if it comes close. Then watch top and iostat while a backup > is running and see what kind of resources the whole process is utilizing. > Check your MySQL insert performance and see if that's holding things > up. > > I give it a 50% chance that the CPU is the bottleneck, not the disk. I'm running a configuration wich is very close to the original posters' one, even using the same disk sizes, raid configuration and RAID controller. And I see the same thing, and I measured that we spend most time in iowait. See my previous posting. Also, I can confirm that other setups (no RAID, no 3ware controllers) behave differently. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning." - Marlo Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
