On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:59:08AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > > > >no, i did not enable attribute spooling. i have disk space available. i > >can enable > >that and see if it helps. > > I've lost track of whether you are using tape or not, so this post may > not be relevant. > > Another issue to consider: is your tape drive being constantly fed with > enough data? Is is stopping and starting all the time? Start/stop can > affect throughput. However, the only two ways I know to avoid this is: > > 1 - steady stream of data from the FD to the SD > 2 - data spooling, which means writing the data to local HDD then to the > tape. > > I listen to my DLT drives. I can tell when they are streaming from one > end of the tape to the other from the sounds. I'm sure you can too.
ok, i've rebuilt postgres and bacula to enable bulk updates and threadsafeness. i've enabled a 500G spool directory and enabled data and attribute spooling on the slowest of the netapps, running a level 0 now to see if it helps. -- michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
