On 2015-06-08 03:25 AM, Denis Witt wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 08 Jun 2015 11:10:11 +0100 > Alan Brown <a...@mssl.ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > >> What are you using for spool disk? > >> If it's not fast SSD then you can't run more than a couple of >> simultaneous backups (you are seek limited with mechanical drives) > Hi Alan, > > I'm using normal (7.200 RPM) HDDs. But, as pointed out in > my mail, there is only one job running ("despooling Attributes") at the > moment. All other jobs are still waiting for execution ("waiting on > max storage jobs"). > > On the SD there are about no IO-Operations. iotop shows some 100KB > once in a while. CPU is 100% idle, same on the Director. > > The MySQL-Machine writes more or less constant 450KB/sec. to disk > (mysql process). top shows about 20% wait and 76% idle. > > So it shouldn't slow down things that much. > > Doesn't it? > > Thanks. >
Can you share your MySQL configuration? MySQL has a few different disk write modes, some of which are more aggressive about laying down small chunks of data one by one while others will group things together more making INSERTs in particular quite a bit faster. I wouldn't necessarily finger memory; your IOWAIT time indicates you're waiting on disk. I'm not sure how many CPUs you have in your MySQL box or anything like that but it sounds like you've probably got at least one core almost totally IO bound. What's the disk under your MySQL database? Bryn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users