On Monday 26 November 2018 17:07:54 Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > On 11/26/18 4:37 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 26 November 2018 15:13:43 Chris Nighswonger wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 2:32 PM Nathan Stratton Treadway > >> > >> <natha...@ontko.com> wrote: > >>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 13:56:52 -0500, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > >>>> On 2018-11-26 13:34, Chris Nighswonger wrote: > >>>> The other possibility that comes to mind is that your bandwidth > >>>> settings are making Amanda decide to limit to one dumper at a > >>>> time. > >>> > >>> Chris, this is certainly the first thing to look at: note in your > >>> > >>> amstatus output the line "network free kps: 0": > >>>>> 9 dumpers idle : 0 > >>>>> taper status: Idle > >>>>> taper qlen: 1 > >>>>> network free kps: 0 > >>>>> holding space : 436635431k ( 50.26%) > >> > >> Hmm... I missed that completely. I'll set it arbitrarily high as > >> Austin suggested and test it overnight. > > > > I was told once, a decade or more back up the log, that amanda made > > no use of that setting. It just used what it needed or whatever the > > hardware supported. > > > > When did it become an actively used setting? > > > > Copyright 2018 by Maurice E. Heskett > > My understanding was that Amanda cannot throttle the throughput, but > it can see what it is. If it is at or over the limit, it won't start > another dump. So, you can end up over the limit that you have > specified for periods of time, but it won't just continue increasing > without respect for the limit.
That makes perfect sense, no one has explained it in that light. Not that its going to bother me, only 2 of my machines have active drives that aren't in the DLE file. Scratchpad drives for devel work. Copyright 2018 by Maurice E. Heskett -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
