Il 03/03/2011 18:05, Phil Stracchino ha scritto: > On 03/03/11 09:52, Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT wrote: >> >> Il giorno 03/mar/2011, alle ore 04.52, Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT ha scritto: >> >>> I have my director using an external raid device which exports its >>> filesystem with nfs protocol as storage. I just ended my bacula >>> configuration and just launched my first remote job. I have this in the >>> report >>> >>> JobId 3: Job write elapsed time = 00:14:23, Transfer rate = 1.182 M >>> Bytes/second >>> >>> which seems a little poor to me (our network is currently on a 100M switch, >>> we're planning to upgrade with something better in the near future). >>> Currently data flows from bacula-fd on client to bacula-sd on bacula server >>> and then the storage daemon writes data on a volume mounted in an nfs >>> partition, so data goes on the wire at the same time. >>> >>> Is advisable to enable data spooling in the storage daemon in this >>> situation? >> >> I made a try with this results >> >> JobId 7: Spooling data ... >> JobId 7: Job write elapsed time = 00:13:07, Transfer rate = 1.295 M >> Bytes/second >> JobId 7: Committing spooled data to Volume "FullVolume-0004". Despooling >> 1,021,072,888 bytes ... >> JobId 7: Despooling elapsed time = 00:02:19, Transfer rate = 7.345 M >> Bytes/second >> JobId 7: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. Despooling 6,816,214 bytes >> ... >> >> There is only a little improvement of performances. >> >> So I'm asking you what is the transfer rate in your jobs? These rates are >> normal or are they slow compared to yours? > > Is there any way you can run your SD directly on the storage device, > instead of the SD writing to storage mounted over NFS? > >
Also, what about using a dedicated NIC to link SD with NFS storage ? That would avoid sharing bandwidth between nfs-traffic and client to storage daemon traffic. Just my 2 cents. -- Marcello Romani ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
