* John R. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:53:20PM -0500)
> Next we need to examine the driver algorithm in more detail. Some of
> the base information is in the usenix paper on the ftp.amanda.org site.
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> If inparallel is set to three (or less), you don't have any "big"
> dumpers and all the processing will happen from the front of the list.
> If inparallel is set to four, three dumpers will be picking off the
> little entries at the head of the list and one dumper will start at
> the end of the list and work its way backward.
Hey,
that explains exactly what Im seeing ...
Now that I've upped maxdumpers to 4 it is indeed picking the biggest dump
first (as well as some smaller ones) and giving a reduced dumptime .
Time to get that useni paper ;)
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