On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 14:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Les,
> I am not too distressed by the processor usage, as this
> machine is dedicated to baqckuppc, but I am trying to workout why the
> network utilisation is so low. I would expect that if two machines had
> a gigabit connection then I should be able to get throughput up to
> around 100mb/s (ish) yet I am seeing a max of around 12MB/s, sometimes
> it just hovers at about 300kb/s.... I would expect that when the file
> listing is sent, for there to be a heavy load on the network at that
> time, and then some heavy cpu work, and then more load on the network
> as it hits files that
> needs to backup.....
If this is not the first backup there is a lot more comparison
happening than transfers - and you are working against a compressed
copy on the server side. Even for the initial file listing
the bottleneck is probably walking the directory tree on the
target disk.
--
Les Mikesell
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