On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 at 2:31pm, Tom Brown wrote

Look in /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug and/or amandad*debug to see how long the estimate is actually taking. Also, what do your iptables rules look like on the server?

thanks - iptables are not being used, local firewall is off

one of my amanda.debugs does have this at the bottom of it

amandad: time 2193.716: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds
amandad: time 2193.716: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
amandad: time 2203.716: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds
amandad: time 2203.716: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
amandad: time 2213.717: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds
amandad: time 2213.717: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
amandad: time 2223.717: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds
amandad: time 2223.717: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
amandad: time 2233.718: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds
amandad: time 2233.718: waiting for ack: timeout, giving up!
amandad: time 2233.718: pid 12319 finish time Wed Nov  2 01:07:14 2005

is that time figure a time in seconds ?

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University