On 03/05 04:25 , Anand Gupta wrote: > Right now the maxbackups is set to 8 (i did this thinking the server was > powerful enough to handle that many number of clients at one shot). Another > reason being, there are like 100+ clients in the network, so if the number > of too low, then all clients might not get backed up. Will try the setting > and see if anything changes.
Disk contention is the killer; and even on a powerful machine I've not been able to efficiently run more than 3-4 backups at a time (presuming they're local machines & fast on their end as well). It's hard to judge; but basically if there are a lot of processes waiting for I/O (a 'D' state in 'top'); try cutting down the number of concurrent backups. You'll have to judge for yourself what the best number for you is. It may be that things work fastest when there's a certain amount of disk contention; but no more and no less. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
