Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup on Sparc SunFire 280R

[Gabriele Bulfon]

Do you have any suggestion about parameters I may use to optimize the daemons?

Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY http://www.sonicle.com

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Da: Hristo Benev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A: Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Data: 18 luglio 2006 16.32.54 CEST
Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup on Sparc SunFire 280R

My opinion is that you have bottleneck somewhere (probably CPU or RAM,
network).
You need to monitor those machines during backup to see where exactly.


On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:53 +0200, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
> When the sparc machine are just clients, I may achieve 2-4Mb/sec
> When these machines are both servers and clients (backup themselves),
> often I achieve less then 1Mb!!
>
>
> Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l.
> Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880
> Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY
> http://www.sonicle.com
>
>
>
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> Da: Hristo Benev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> A: Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bacula-
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> Data: 18 luglio 2006 15.43.15 CEST
> Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup on Sparc SunFire 280R
>
> Just to exclude network!
>
> What is the transfer rate that you can achieve with those
> servers?
>
> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:37 +0200, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
> > Oh no. I do not use compression at all.
> > And if I'd use compression, I'd use hardware one.
> > I don't think it's a problem of compression.
> > I have this problem only on sparc machines.
> > And they slow down the entire network backup during the
> night
> >
> >
> >
> > Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l.
> > Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880
> > Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY
> > http://www.sonicle.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > Da: Hristo Benev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > A: Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bacula-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Data: 18 luglio 2006 15.16.37 CEST
> > Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup on Sparc SunFire
> 280R
> >
> > Do you use compression, because You have difference in
> > processing power
> > Sparc III is much less powerful than Opteron?
> >
> > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 13:58 +0200, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
> > > Yes, it's a network backup. The SunFire is running the
> FD.
> > > The server is running on a v20z.
> > > This server backup many other machines, but no other one
> is
> > running
> > > that slow.
> > > I usually achieve 5-8MB/s both on Windows clients and
> other
> > solaris 10
> > > platforms (x86/amd).
> > > May it be that the compiled agent for SPARC has some
> > problem?
> > >
> > >
> > > Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l.
> > > Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880
> > > Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano -
> ITALY
> > > http://www.sonicle.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> ______________________________________________________________________
> > >
> > >
> > > Da: MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > A: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Data: 18 luglio 2006 13.22.13 CEST
> > > Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup on Sparc SunFire
> > 280R
> > >
> > >
> > > On 7/14/06, Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I have some bacula installations on SunFire 280R Sparc
> > > machines, with Solaris 10.
> > > These machines apperar to be very very slow with
> > > respect to other installations (such as v20z) with
> > > same LTO2 device.
> > > As you can see from the report, 60Gb are copied in 9
> > > hours, with an avarage rate of 1898.9 KB/s!
> > > On a v20z, the same amount of data is done in 5 hours
> > > or less, with an avarage a rate of 3139.2 KB/s..
> > >
> > >
> > > Are you talking about local backups, i.e. both your
> bacula-
> > fd
> > > and bacula-sd are running on the same server, or there is
> a
> > > network in between? In the latter case you might be
> hitting
> > > the network transfer limit.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > --
> > > Maxx
> > >
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