Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-4 tape: only 20mb/sec when used with bacula

2010-06-21 Thread Lukas Kolbe
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 11:54 +0200, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: > 2010/6/20 Lukas Kolbe > Hi! > > > Hi, > > We use a Tandberg autochanger with two IBM Ultrium LTO-4 > drives behind a > 24-disk RAID50. When used with with testdata and dd or tar (in >

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-4 tape: only 20mb/sec when used with bacula

2010-06-21 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
2010/6/20 Lukas Kolbe > Hi! > > Hi, > We use a Tandberg autochanger with two IBM Ultrium LTO-4 drives behind a > 24-disk RAID50. When used with with testdata and dd or tar (in dd's case > with bs=1M), both drives get acceptable rates of around 170MiB per > second. However, when used with bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-4 tape: only 20mb/sec when used with bacula

2010-06-20 Thread richard
Lukas Kolbe wrote: > I have no idea why bacula-sd consumes so much cpu-time and obviously > limits the throughput here. Are you using encryption or software compression? My tests with encryption resulted in a severe slowdown and single core saturation. Regards, Richard ---

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-4 tape: only 20mb/sec when used with bacula

2010-06-20 Thread Lukas Kolbe
Am Montag, den 21.06.2010, 09:30 +1200 schrieb richard: > Lukas Kolbe wrote: > : > > > > I suppose it has something todo with the tapes' maximum blocksize being > > higher than what Linux supports. > > I have the following in my sd with LTO4 attached and it runs at full > speed from a drect attac

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-4 tape: only 20mb/sec when used with bacula

2010-06-20 Thread richard
Lukas Kolbe wrote: : > > I suppose it has something todo with the tapes' maximum blocksize being > higher than what Linux supports. I have the following in my sd with LTO4 attached and it runs at full speed from a drect attached RAID5 Maximum block size = 262144 Maximum Network Buffer Size = 655

[Bacula-users] LTO-4 tape: only 20mb/sec when used with bacula

2010-06-20 Thread Lukas Kolbe
Hi! We use a Tandberg autochanger with two IBM Ultrium LTO-4 drives behind a 24-disk RAID50. When used with with testdata and dd or tar (in dd's case with bs=1M), both drives get acceptable rates of around 170MiB per second. However, when used with bacula for a copy job (Our default pool is the di