I found the solution... rtfm!
for solaris --enable-smartalloc is important... :/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Ribi Roland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 9:33 AM > To: 'bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net' > Subject: FW: [Bacula-users] Performance testing and tuning > > > > Hi, > > We have Solaris 10 Servers, 3x Sun V240, one of them is the > backup-server > with the storage deamon and director the others are backed up > to the tape at > the backup-server. > > The backup-server has a 1.3GHz CPU and 1Gb RAM, U320 > SCSI-Kontroller (on > board) and a second U320 controller with the Tandberg SDLT320 > tapedrive. > Networkspeed is at 1Gbit. We alos testet some transfers with > "Pipe Magic > Tools" and get more then 30Mb/s in the average. The disks I > testet with > bonnie++ and the write/reed is more then 30Mb/s. > > We compiled bacula to work with postgre-sql. > > All your tips did'nt change anything, I have only a throuput > of arround > 300-350Kb/s. I also added the spooling-parameter. > > With spooling it takes arround 10-20min to spool data and > write them down to > tape at 2MB/s. But the save of the attributes (writing to the > catalog) needs > 2h or more! > > I tried many combinations and recompiled bacula also with > Postgres 8.1, > Postgres 8.0, with CFLAGS=-O2/CXXFLAGS=-O2.... > > I compiled it with gcc 3.4.4, which I compiled myself, > because on solaris 10 > there is'nt any binary distribution. > > I think that there are 2 Problems, one is the performance of Bacula or > Postgres itself and also some problems with the tape. I > did'nt get more > then 2.6Mb/s with the ufsdump from solaris. > > Anybody can help? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ove Risberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:59 PM > > To: Ribi Roland > > Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] Performance testing and tuning > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I changed the MaximumNetworkBufferSize to 65536 in the file > > and storage > > daemon configuration and increased the MaximumBlockSize to > > 262144 in the > > storage daemon configuration. > > > > If you change the MaximumBlockSize you must run the btape > > tests again so > > you are sure the value is valid for your tape drive. > > > > I think the MaximumNetworkBufferSize was the parameter that > > gave me the > > performance increase. > > > > What do you think of adding more performance testing tools > to bacula? > > > > What system do you have (hardware, os, tape, disk)? > > > > Please reply with your results. > > > > /Ove > > > > On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 13:02, Ribi Roland wrote: > > > How did you increase the performance? > > > > > > I have the same slow system (arround 300Kb/s), what did you > > change in the > > > configuration, which did help to increase the performance? > > > > > > It would help me... > > > > > > Thank You > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Ove Risberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 12:31 PM > > > > To: bacula-users > > > > Subject: [Bacula-users] Performance testing and tuning > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have tried to get some decent performance in my bacula > > configuration > > > > and after reading bacula mail lists, documentation and some > > > > source code > > > > I increased it from 300KB/s to 3MB/s when backuping the root > > > > filesystem. > > > > > > > > After reading the mail lists I found out that I was not the > > > > first bacula > > > > user with performance problems and I do not think I will > > be the last. > > > > > > > > One thing I was missing while doing this was more tools to > > > > test and tune > > > > the performance of tape, database, network and reading files. > > > > > > > > btape has great functions for testing if the tape drive and > > > > autochanger > > > > is working but I would like it to test different parameters > > > > and suggest > > > > changes to my configuration. I do not mind if would take a > > > > long time to > > > > do this because it would take me a lot longer to do it myself. > > > > > > > > Network performance would be much easier to test and tune > > if I could > > > > tell a file daemon to send data to a storage daemon and > report the > > > > transfer rate without reading files, updating database or > > writing to > > > > tape. > > > > > > > > Reading files can be done in a similar way by telling a > > file daemon to > > > > read files and report the transfer rate without sending the > > > > files to any > > > > storage daemon. > > > > > > > > I do not know how to test and tune the database... > > > > but someone must know ;-) > > > > > > > > When/If these tools are available it would be possible > to write a > > > > performance tuning tool to help users to test and tune > > their bacula > > > > configuration. > > > > > > > > Is it possible to do this? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > > > > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App > > > > Server. 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