Is it a software raid 0? Honestly I wouldn't worry about the load, especially if this system is dedicated to bacula backup functions.
-Aaron Mike Seda wrote: > Aaron Knister wrote: >> During the job run an "iostat -k 2" and tell me what the iowait >> percentage is. > i've been using top, and the elevated load does positively correlate > to iowait >> If it's over 20% > it is >> you have a disk bottleneck and the CPU is waiting on the disk to >> write/read data which will jack up your load. > i have a raid 0 with write cache enabled... i may have to find another > solution... should i just disable data/attribute spooling? >> It's also possible that the calculation of md5 sigs is adding a bit >> of CPU overhead. > yeah... i thought so, but the docs recommend using md5 sigs so i left > it in the config >> What is the average speed of your jobs (in terms of MB/s) during this >> high load? > 30 MB/s >> >> -Aaron >> >> Mike Seda wrote: >>> Wow... On my server running bacula-sd and bacula-dir, the load >>> average can get as high as 9.2 when doing full backups of certain >>> machines... Any thoughts as to why? >>> Server specs: >>> Dell PE 2650 (2 x 3.06 GHz Xeon 32-bit single-core) >>> PX502 LTO-3 FC AutoChanger >>> RHEL 4 AS >>> bacula 2.0.1 i386 (via rpm) >>> data spooling (350 GB) to RAID 0 (3 x 146 GB SCSI) >>> md5 sig option in FileSet >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, >>> security? >>> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your >>> job easier. >>> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache >>> Geronimo >>> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bacula-users mailing list >>> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >>> >>> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
