Jane,
        I balanced the start times and windows of the schedules to even the
network traffic so that all servers do not start at once.  Most of the
time the little desktop pcs take a couple of minutes to backup.  These I
schedule to start along with a few large server backups.  The balance
seems to work.  It is an ongoing process.

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>From:  Jane Vaughn[SMTP:Jane_Vaughn AT PCMAILGW.ML DOT COM]
>Sent:  Monday, February 24, 1997 6:14 AM
>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:       ADSM and Network Load - ATTN: Dave Larimer
>
>Dave Larimer,
> In your response to a question (see below), you stated that 'playing with
>the
>schedules' helped you elimintate a slow down in response during backups.  Can
>you elaborate on this?               -- Jane Vaughn/Merrill Lynch
>
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>--
>
>Vincent,
>        We have a 60 node system currently and my network people had the same
>questions.  We put a sniffer on our network during load tests on the
>network.  We had two systems.  One was a FDDI, fiber optic and the other
>was a ethernet.  During load tests the FDDI was hardly driven at all.
>We were never able to get the FDDI above 5% utilization.  The ethernet
>was another story.  During peak load tests our users said that they
>noticed a slow down in response, however the sniffer showed a peak
>utilization between 25 and 50%.  Playing with schedules and load I was
>able to eliminate the complaints (at least so far).  I hope that this
>helps.
>
>                                                Dave Larimer
>                                                ADSM administrator
>                                                KNEnergy Inc.
>