Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula causing high disk-io on clients

2015-06-29 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2015-06-27 17:56 GMT+02:00 Heitor Faria : > I wonder if the thread starter (SPQR) solved his problem. > The discussion became hot and he flew. lol > As always on the Internet. :) all the best -- Radosław Korzeniewski rados...@korzeniewski.net

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula causing high disk-io on clients

2015-06-27 Thread Heitor Faria
rs" > Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2015 12:14:47 PM > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula causing high disk-io on clients > On 6/27/2015 8:55 AM, Alex Domoradov wrote: >> FYI >> >> I have 1Gb uplinks between bacula sd and client and get the following >> results &

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula causing high disk-io on clients

2015-06-27 Thread Dmitri Maziuk
On 6/27/2015 8:55 AM, Alex Domoradov wrote: > FYI > > I have 1Gb uplinks between bacula sd and client and get the following > results > > Compression: NONE > Time: 07:16:58 > Size: 831.14 GB > Files: 11,288,747 > Speed: 32.46 MB/s > Compression: 0.00 > > Compression: LZO > Time: 07:56:38 > Size: 65

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula causing high disk-io on clients

2015-06-27 Thread Alex Domoradov
FYI I have 1Gb uplinks between bacula sd and client and get the following results Compression: NONE Time: 07:16:58 Size: 831.14 GB Files: 11,288,747 Speed: 32.46 MB/s Compression: 0.00 Compression: LZO Time: 07:56:38 Size: 653.04 GB Files: 11,288,747 Speed: 23.38 MB/s Compression: 0.21 Compress

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula causing high disk-io on clients

2015-06-27 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/27/2015 5:45 AM, Dmitri Maziuk wrote: > On 6/26/2015 7:26 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: > >> However, for backup devices lacking hardware compression (such as disk), >> compression may be warranted regardless of client connection speed. This >> is why a SD level compression feature would be useful.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula causing high disk-io on clients

2015-06-27 Thread Alan Brown
On 27/06/15 10:45, Dmitri Maziuk wrote: > Compressing data on the client means fewer bytes to send over the > wire. Block-level compression like bzip2 tends to be completely > cpu-bound and anything bigger than a cellphone tends to have plenty of > cycles to spare. Not entirely true and certainly

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula causing high disk-io on clients

2015-06-27 Thread Dmitri Maziuk
On 6/26/2015 7:26 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: > However, for backup devices lacking hardware compression (such as disk), > compression may be warranted regardless of client connection speed. This > is why a SD level compression feature would be useful. Compressing data on the client means fewer bytes

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula causing high disk-io on clients

2015-06-26 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/25/2015 8:59 AM, Alan Brown wrote: > On 25/06/15 13:47, SPQR wrote: >> Hello again, >> >> at the moment I'm using compression = gzip; how can I change the level of >> compression? >> >> Can I just write compression = lzo without any problems? > Yes, but. > > If you reduce the compressio

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula causing high disk-io on clients

2015-06-25 Thread Bill Arlofski
On 06/25/2015 07:46 AM, SPQR wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Wow, this was really fast :-) Thanks for your answer. > > of course I know, that this is a io-consuming-process, but the load is really > too high. Other tasks that are done by the system (log rotation, ...) are not > working correctly and onc

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula causing high disk-io on clients

2015-06-25 Thread Alan Brown
On 25/06/15 13:47, SPQR wrote: > Hello again, > > at the moment I'm using compression = gzip; how can I change the level of > compression? > > Can I just write compression = lzo without any problems? Yes, but. If you reduce the compression level then the disk will be hit harder, which means

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula causing high disk-io on clients

2015-06-25 Thread Heitor Faria
> Hello again, > > at the moment I'm using compression = gzip; how can I change the level of > compression? E.g.: compression = gzip1 > Can I just write compression = lzo without any problems? It depends if your client was built with lzo support. It's safe to test it: the worse that can happ

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula causing high disk-io on clients

2015-06-25 Thread Heitor Faria
> Hi there :-) > > I mentioned, that bacula-client causes a high disk-io on the systems, which > are > handled on daily backup tasks. > > Is it possible to use something like ionice to avoid this behavior? If you use Bacula compression you may try to use a lower GZIP Level (e.g.: 1) or LZO. If

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula causing high disk-io on clients

2015-06-25 Thread Alan Brown
On 25/06/15 12:46, SPQR wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Wow, this was really fast :-) Thanks for your answer. > > of course I know, that this is a io-consuming-process, but the load is really > too high. Other tasks that are done by the system (log rotation, ...) are not > working correctly and once the se

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula causing high disk-io on clients

2015-06-25 Thread Alan Brown
On 25/06/15 12:11, SPQR wrote: > I mentioned, that bacula-client causes a high disk-io on the systems, which > are handled on daily backup tasks. Um What did you expect from something which is spinning through every directory and file on the disk? > Is it possible to use something like io