Steve, Here is a quick snap of my top during a full backup.
top - 09:32:35 up 1 day, 18:38, 1 user, load average: 11.41, 11.60, 10.75 Tasks: 161 total, 1 running, 160 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 0.3%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 99.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 13.0%us, 1.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 18.1%id, 66.9%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.6%si, 0.0%st Cpu2 : 1.9%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 97.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu3 : 0.6%us, 1.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 22.7%id, 74.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.6%si, 0.0%st Cpu4 : 0.6%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 99.1%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu5 : 0.6%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 20.8%id, 78.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st Cpu6 : 0.4%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 52.5%id, 46.5%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu7 : 0.6%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 7.6%id, 91.5%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 4057152k total, 4035996k used, 21156k free, 14372k buffers Swap: 8000360k total, 1536k used, 7998824k free, 3852936k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 6118 root 20 0 60388 2212 1296 S 24 0.1 102:35.41 bacula-fd 6240 root 20 0 130m 2092 1348 S 3 0.1 227:19.75 bacula-sd 23214 hayden 20 0 18992 1308 932 R 1 0.0 0:00.24 top There are many occasions where the bacula-sd and bacula-fd have between 10-50% and all the wait percentages are through the roof as you see above. Also as you can see the load average is also through the roof. -H -----Original Message----- From: Steve Polyack [mailto:kor...@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 10:37 AM To: Hayden Katzenellenbogen Cc: mehma sarja; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Network transfer Speed Hayden Katzenellenbogen wrote: > Everyone, > > Here is a little update. I finally after many months have been able to > run my first restore. > > I started an 800G restore. Which is half of my 1.7TB backup. > > I ran iostat while it was restoring and was getting between 50 and 140 > Meg/s. I would say the average is around 85Meg/s. > > This is performing a restore to the raid-6 array. Not sure if this > information helps or hinders the issue at hand. > > Thanks again for all the good suggestions. > > -H Do you have data encryption enabled? Also, I notice you've mentioned checking iostat during your backups, but have you watched top(1) to monitor CPU usage during the backup? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
