Hello,

For any one interested in performance tuning, I have added documentation to 
src/version.h in the current CVS for all the performance #defines that are 
available.  Also, you can also get valuable information by disabling Catalog 
Updates using the "Use Catalog = no" directive in your pool.

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 22:50, John Stoffel wrote:
> Ribi> I also disableb gzip compression at the same time.
>
> I'd disable gzip anyway, let the drive with it's dedicated compression
> do the work.  Also, make sure that on your Sun boxes you have the
> Gigabit ethernet cards (if not using the onboard ones) in the 66mhz
> PCI slots, and not the 33mhz ones.  You'll see a big performance
> increase there.
>
> Ribi> If I enable gzip I have the same low speed (with or w/o
> Ribi> --enable-smartalloc).
>
> Turn it off, let the drive do the work.
>
> Ribi> At the moment bacula runs fast enougth. The only problem to
> Ribi> solve is OS/Hardware related. My Tape runs at an other machine
> Ribi> with 17-20Mb/s and at the new Solaris 10 server with a
> Ribi> SCSI-U320-Controller I get only 2.6Mb/s...
>
> Sounds like a cable problem to me.  Or that the system where it runs
> quickly enough is an older/slower controller which is negotiating
> properly to the drive.
>
> See if you can go into the BIOS of the controller with the tape drive
> and turn down the speed.  You don't care about SCSI 320 speed, try to
> 160 or even 80mbytes/sec setting if you can.
>
> Also, make sure the firmware on your drive is upto date.
>
> And of course, make sure you're not mixing differential with regular
> or LVD with HVD on the controller and tape drive.  It will make a huge
> difference.
>
> Can you check the output of 'lusinfo -v' on both systems with the same
> tape drive?
>
> Good luck!
> John
>
>
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