--On Saturday, February 01, 2003 08:49:26 -0500 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm in the process of changing my Amanda tape server from an HP 9000/735 to an Athaolon 1.2GHZ. I'm using the same HP branded DLT40, and i've upped the holding disk from 2G to 40G. The clients are the same. I've also upgraded (almost all) of the clients to 2.4.3N4. I am having major problems with dumps failing because of "timeouts". What appears to be happening is that the clients are losing there concretion to the host in mid dump. I;ve decreased the number of dumpers, and put in network bandwidth limiting (using Amanda.conf), and I;ve had a couple of nights where everything went OK. But the whole situation seems awfully "fragile". Before last nights run, i bumped dumpers back up to 16 from 8, and I had 3 filessystems fail! Some filessystems on the same machines succeed. I don;t believe i have any specific network issues, as no other network tasks seem to be having problems. The new tapesever is running FreeBSD 4.7 STABLE.
Are you sure it's not a networking related? No errors from ifconfig or on your switch? Also, check your etimeout and dtimeout settings (estimates or data transfer timeouts), maybe one or both need to increased. If you're using the same config file as the previous machine, and the machine is the only thing that changed, I'd bet on network problems (a duplex-mismatch the most likely cause). Frank
I'm going nuts here, and am looking for any thoughts on this. Thanks. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
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