Kai Zimmer wrote:
> Are there possibilties to gain speed without investing into new hardware?
> Will breaking up into smaller DLEs help?

I've found on my installation that for some clients, the bottleneck was
rather the client's CPU.  Switching from `compress client' to `compress
server' gained me some percent.  Also, breaking up into smaller DLEs
surely helps, if only because it tends to keep the holding disk free
(you run into 100% a few times), which might allow other clients to be
started in parallel.  As it stands, you don't almost gain anything by
parallelizing DLEs:
> Run Time (hrs:min)        110:57
> Dump Time (hrs:min)       120:52

But even so, 716GB in 120h isn't that bad a troughput.  I'm getting half
an order of magnitude better, 400GB in typically 16h, but I wouldn't bet
the house on getting below 24h.

Alex

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