On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:06:19PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > Hi, > > I've got this amanda client (server and client at v2.4.5) with a 1.5TB > raid splitted/chunked in ~70 DLEs (using gtar) and some of them don't > make it to tape as the planner timeouts. Now, would someone be kind > enough to jolt my memory as to what is the relationship between UDP > packet size and the number/size of DLEs entries along with their > exclude list? The FAQ mentions something about this (UDP packet size > of 64Kb and "results missing") but that might not be quite up to date. > > This raid partition has been splitted using quite a few 'exclude > append "./blah"' in the disklist and I wonder if it would be better to > have them in a file on the client side rather than explicitely in the > disklist file per se. Would that make any difference at all regarding > what get stuffed in the UDP packets at the estimate phase -- making > them smaller -- so that I wouldn't hit that hard limit? >
>From a Dec. 2004 reply by Paul Bijenes: || || The problem seems to be in the reply packet. || || I've already seen problems with a UDP-packet overflow, but that's || unlikely. That problem happened with older versions where the UDP || size was only 8Kbyte or so. Currently it is 64K, but it could be || limited by the OS too, of course. The reply packet is usually larger || than the request packet, because it contains 1 to 3 lines for each || DLE (level 0, current level, current plus 1). || -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)