Vects wrote: > Today I run another 'Full' set and had opportunity to test what Stefan > said. I still saw single dumping process per host but something got > changes and I found two dumping processes on the same computer in > parallel. I'll run amplot on current Full and publish amfiles later > today.
Fine. > This is when two dumpers were running on the same host > --------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Full3]$ amstatus Full3 --dumping > Using /var/lib/amanda/Full3/amdump from Tue Jun 21 11:05:05 IDT 2005 > comp1:/dev/sd3a 0 1375797k dumping 71808k ( 5.22%) (12:18:30) > comp1:/dev/sd5a 0 208657k dumping 184320k ( 88.34%) (12:18:15) Ok. > localhost:sda1 0 440160k finished (12:05:13) > localhost:sda5 0 50k finished (11:33:03) > localhost:sda6 0 574320k finished (12:12:55) > localhost:sda7 0 1134510k finished (12:20:08) DON'T USE localhost IN YOUR DISKLIST! > SUMMARY part real estimated > size size > partition : 35 > estimated : 35 41569897k > flush : 0 0k > failed : 0 0k ( 0.00%) > wait for dumping: 12 32046404k ( 77.09%) > dumping to tape : 0 0k ( 0.00%) > dumping : 1 169216k 1375797k ( 12.30%) ( 0.41%) > dumped : 22 8283060k 8147696k (101.66%) ( 19.93%) > wait for writing: 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) > wait to flush : 0 0k 0k (100.00%) ( 0.00%) > writing to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) > failed to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) > taped : 22 8283060k 8147696k (101.66%) ( 19.93%) > tape 1 : 22 8283060k 8147696k ( 14.58%) Full308 > 15 dumpers idle : no-bandwidth Here you are: Your network bandwidth seems to get exhausted ... > taper idle > network free kps: 1776 > holding space : 70809996k ( 98.09%) > dumper0 busy : 0:56:29 ( 96.83%) > dumper1 busy : 0:12:36 ( 21.62%) > dumper2 busy : 0:06:27 ( 11.07%) > dumper3 busy : 0:00:00 ( 0.01%) > taper busy : 0:45:41 ( 78.32%) > 0 dumpers busy : 0:00:00 ( 0.00%) > 1 dumper busy : 0:41:06 ( 70.46%) no-bandwidth: 0:41:06 > (100.00%) > 2 dumpers busy : 0:17:13 ( 29.53%) no-bandwidth: 0:17:13 > (100.00%) > 3 dumpers busy : 0:00:00 ( 0.00%) > 4 dumpers busy : 0:00:00 ( 0.01%) You seem to lack bandwidth for running more than 2 dumpers at a time. What does your Report-email say for the rates you get? How much "Avg Dump Rate" do you get, are ther DLEs that seem especially slow? Stefan.