On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 10:07pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 15:02 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 8:44pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote > > > > > I have now cranked up the latter to 3000 kbps, so I'll see tonight how > > > that behaves. > > > > Why so stingy? I'm assuming you have at least a 100Mbps connection? Why > > let amanda use only 3% of that (0.3% if you're using gigabit)? > > Oh, was I stingy? If we are talking bus speed it's 400 Mbps, but if it > is wise to let amanda have it all then why on earth have this parameter > at all? And how is it precisely that amanda uses this value? Will the > backup go faster the higher the netuse value? Or how is it?
We're talking about network bandwidth -- ethernet. And the parameter is there in case your backup server and/or clients perform other network intensive functions that you don't want to interfere with. Myself, I consider backups most important and want amanda to use all the bandwidth it can. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University