Re: [BackupPC-users] 4 x speedup with one tweak to freebsd server

2007-11-08 Thread Stephen Joyce
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, dan wrote: > i have to agree on the "off-topic" comment be untrue as it directly effects > the performance of the backuppc system. general system tweak or not. > > i see that comment a lot. 'nfs is off topic', 'this or that filesystem is > off topic', etc etc. None if it is

Re: [BackupPC-users] 4 x speedup with one tweak to freebsd server

2007-11-08 Thread dan
i have to agree on the "off-topic" comment be untrue as it directly effects the performance of the backuppc system. general system tweak or not. i see that comment a lot. 'nfs is off topic', 'this or that filesystem is off topic', etc etc. None if it is off topic. anything that directly improv

Re: [BackupPC-users] 4 x speedup with one tweak to freebsd server

2007-11-08 Thread David Rees
On Nov 6, 2007 7:35 AM, Paul Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I mount my /backup raid with noatime and notail options. > > > Don't forget nodiratime. nodiratime is a subset of noatime, so if you have noatime set, there is no need to set nodiratime. -Dave

Re: [BackupPC-users] 4 x speedup with one tweak to freebsd server

2007-11-06 Thread Paul Fox
stephen wrote: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Paul Fox wrote: > > > this is perfect wiki fodder, i'd say... > > Yes and no. It's more correctly classified as a general system performance > tweak rather than something BackupPC specific. At best it belongs in the > off-topic area. i think you're s

Re: [BackupPC-users] 4 x speedup with one tweak to freebsd server

2007-11-06 Thread Stephen Joyce
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Paul Fox wrote: > this is perfect wiki fodder, i'd say... Yes and no. It's more correctly classified as a general system performance tweak rather than something BackupPC specific. At best it belongs in the off-topic area.

Re: [BackupPC-users] 4 x speedup with one tweak to freebsd server

2007-11-06 Thread Paul Archer
4:19pm, Toni Van Remortel wrote: > Paul Archer wrote: >> Looks like a good tip. Unfortunately, since I'm running a reiserfs >> filesystem on Linux, it doesn't help me directly. But it does bring up a >> good point: does anyone know of any filesystem tweaks for reiserfs that >> might bring similar

Re: [BackupPC-users] 4 x speedup with one tweak to freebsd server

2007-11-06 Thread Toni Van Remortel
Paul Archer wrote: > Looks like a good tip. Unfortunately, since I'm running a reiserfs > filesystem on Linux, it doesn't help me directly. But it does bring up a > good point: does anyone know of any filesystem tweaks for reiserfs that > might bring similar improvements in this situation of acc

Re: [BackupPC-users] 4 x speedup with one tweak to freebsd server

2007-11-06 Thread Paul Archer
Looks like a good tip. Unfortunately, since I'm running a reiserfs filesystem on Linux, it doesn't help me directly. But it does bring up a good point: does anyone know of any filesystem tweaks for reiserfs that might bring similar improvements in this situation of accessing millions of small f

Re: [BackupPC-users] 4 x speedup with one tweak to freebsd server

2007-11-06 Thread Paul Fox
this is perfect wiki fodder, i'd say... =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 46.4 degrees) - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find pr

[BackupPC-users] 4 x speedup with one tweak to freebsd server

2007-11-05 Thread John Pettitt
I'm posting this to the list so people searching for FreeBSD optimizations will find it in the archives. I finally got around to looking at why my FreeBSD server was only backing up at about 2.5MB/sec using tar with clients with lots of small files.   Using my desktop (a Mac PRO) as the test