Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-09 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 03/03/2011 18:05, Phil Stracchino ha scritto: > On 03/03/11 09:52, Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT wrote: >> >> Il giorno 03/mar/2011, alle ore 04.52, Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT ha scritto: >> >>> I have my director using an external raid device which exports its >>> filesystem with nfs protocol as storag

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-06 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Sean Clark writes: > In my experience, slow performance like this (i.e. <5MB/s on at least > 100Mb ethernet) usually turns out to be the client's fault. > Compression seems to be a very common culprit. Try switching > compression off completely and see how much of a difference that > makes. The

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-03 Thread Sean Clark
On 03/03/2011 05:12 PM, John Drescher wrote: > That was one of the choices. btrfs is still considered highly > experimental at this point. > > John Well, that's definitely true, though so far for me it's been more reliable than one might think. (I did, just yesterday, run into what appeared to be

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-03 Thread John Drescher
>> Well, depending on what you consider "mainline". What I meant by "mainline" was a filesystem that was considered stable in the mainline kernel. John -- What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This pap

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-03 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Sean Clark wrote: > On 03/03/2011 03:21 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT >> wrote: > [...] >>> So the poor throughput is given by software compression. I don't know what >>> to choose in the speed vs space tradeo

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-03 Thread Sean Clark
On 03/03/2011 03:21 PM, John Drescher wrote: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT > wrote: [...] >> So the poor throughput is given by software compression. I don't know what >> to choose in the speed vs space tradeoff. Ideally the best option could be >> compression on the

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-03 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT wrote: > > Il giorno 03/mar/2011, alle ore 20.53, Alan Brown ha scritto: > >> Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT wrote: >> >>> Thank you for your analysis, after that I think that the problem is not the >>> nfs overhead, because the despooling phase (o

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-03 Thread Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT
Il giorno 03/mar/2011, alle ore 20.53, Alan Brown ha scritto: > Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT wrote: > >> Thank you for your analysis, after that I think that the problem is not the >> nfs overhead, because the despooling phase (over nfs filsystem) has a >> transfer rate of 7.3 MBps, so it's fine. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-03 Thread Sean Clark
(Dangit, that last reply was supposed to go to the list, not just the sender of the email...let me try this again) On 03/03/2011 12:40 PM, Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT wrote: > Thank you for your analysis, after that I think that the problem is not the > nfs overhead, because the despooling phase (ove

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-03 Thread Alan Brown
Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT wrote: > Thank you for your analysis, after that I think that the problem is not the > nfs overhead, because the despooling phase (over nfs filsystem) has a > transfer rate of 7.3 MBps, so it's fine. Instead the first phase (bacula-fd > -> bacula-sd) happens at 1.2 MBps

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-03 Thread Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT
Il giorno 03/mar/2011, alle ore 17.58, Alan Brown ha scritto: > John Drescher wrote: > >> I made a try with this results >>> >>> JobId 7: Spooling data ... >>> JobId 7: Job write elapsed time = 00:13:07, Transfer rate = 1.295 M >>> Bytes/second >>> JobId 7: Committing spooled data to Volume "F

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-03 Thread Steve Ellis
On 3/3/2011 6:52 AM, Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT wrote: > > JobId 7: Spooling data ... > JobId 7: Job write elapsed time = 00:13:07, Transfer rate = 1.295 M > Bytes/second > JobId 7: Committing spooled data to Volume "FullVolume-0004". Despooling > 1,021,072,888 bytes ... > JobId 7: Despooling elapse

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/03/11 09:52, Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT wrote: > > Il giorno 03/mar/2011, alle ore 04.52, Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT ha scritto: > >> I have my director using an external raid device which exports its >> filesystem with nfs protocol as storage. I just ended my bacula >> configuration and just l

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-03 Thread Alan Brown
John Drescher wrote: > I made a try with this results >> >> JobId 7: Spooling data ... >> JobId 7: Job write elapsed time = 00:13:07, Transfer rate = 1.295 M >> Bytes/second >> JobId 7: Committing spooled data to Volume "FullVolume-0004". Despooling >> 1,021,072,888 bytes ... >> JobId 7: Despool

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-03 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT wrote: > > Il giorno 03/mar/2011, alle ore 04.52, Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT ha scritto: > >> I have my director using an external raid device which exports its >> filesystem with nfs protocol as storage. I just ended my bacula >> configuratio

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-03 Thread Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT
Il giorno 03/mar/2011, alle ore 04.52, Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT ha scritto: > I have my director using an external raid device which exports its filesystem > with nfs protocol as storage. I just ended my bacula configuration and just > launched my first remote job. I have this in the report > >

[Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-02 Thread Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT
I have my director using an external raid device which exports its filesystem with nfs protocol as storage. I just ended my bacula configuration and just launched my first remote job. I have this in the report JobId 3: Job write elapsed time = 00:14:23, Transfer rate = 1.182 M Bytes/second whic