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.


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