[Bacula-users] Performance with latent networks

2011-10-01 Thread reaper
i'm going through a similar issue -- zurich, barca, copenhagen ... mayak-cq, can you test bacula performance under your conditions? With and without ssh (or something similar) tunnel. +-- |This was sent by rea...@lmn.name via Ba

[Bacula-users] Performance with latent networks

2011-09-30 Thread reaper
if i understand you correctly, bacula is only using a 128k -- way too small? curious -- have you played with "Maximum Network Buffer Size" ? does this help? Yes, that's correct, bacula can only scale window to 128k that's why throughput gets limited to 10Mbit/s. With ssh tunnel between client an

[Bacula-users] Performance with latent networks

2011-09-29 Thread reaper
i have noticed that scp is not a good measure of throughput -- i do not know why. i use an openvpn tunnel between sites and loose about 20% of throughput due to the tunnel. check window size on distant machine (using wireshark) to verify that some upstream device is not changing it. No, no, no.

[Bacula-users] Performance with latent networks

2011-09-29 Thread reaper
sounds like your sysctl.conf needs tweaking? have you tried something like this on both sides? kernel.msgmnb = 65536 kernel.msgmax = 65536 kernel.shmmax = 68719476736 kernel.shmall = 4294967296 # long fat pipes net.core.wmem_max = 8388608 net.core.rmem_max = 8388608 Yes, I tried t

[Bacula-users] Performance with latent networks

2011-09-29 Thread reaper
Hello. I saw this post recently http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg47393.html and it seems I'm affected by this problem too. Bacula shows extremely low performance in networks with high rtt. I have sd in Germany and client in USA. Bacula can make backups on speed