On Friday, April 15, 2011 03:07:03 PM Tim Johnson did opine: > Not sure I understand, this really doesnt effect > what the problem actually is with the server not > responding after 10-12 hours to several days (when I > was on vacation) waiting for a down client that will > not send an estimate. Even after changing to different > timeout > > > Sorry, no mal intent just not sure I get the reasoning. > > Thanks. > There were 2 points I was trying to make, Tim.
1. There is no use waiting for extended periods of time if the client doesn't respond in say, 150% of its normal estimate time. If it's off line for some reason, then go on and do the rest of the backup, your emailed report will report the missing DLE(s), and you can then go investigate why. It might be as simple as the operator shutting it off at 5 when he/she went home. Or even simpler, that operator changed the screen blanker for something that turns out to be a cpu pig. I have seen that right here in the past. 2. By giving each physical disk its own spindle number, you allow amanda to do all this in parallel, thereby arriving at an overall wasted wallclock time that is not going to be hugely over one etimeout in total wasted time. Several DLE's mssing on the same spindle would probably waste an etimeout per DLE on that spindle unless amanda has grown a memory for failed spindles recently, and assumes that if that spindle failed once already, it should not waste an etimeout waiting for other DLE's on that same spindle. But that feature is probably yet only on /my/ wishlist. That is yet another argument in favor of an etimeout that is not hugely more than a normal estimate delay. If its going to fail, get it over with in minimum wallclock time. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> <http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html> I'm not a real movie star -- I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. -- Will Rogers
