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Re: [Bacula-users] tape size & speed LTO-1 drive

2009-12-03 01:11:37
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] tape size & speed LTO-1 drive
From: Jens Froehlich <jens.froehlich AT medav DOT de>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:08:25 +0100
Arno Lehmann schrieb:
> ...
> 
> Looks all very good.
> 
> I would try dd'ing some random data to tape next.
> 
> Running sar or, at least, vmstat and top during testing and a slow 
> backup might reveal some unexpected bottlenecks.
> 
> Also, it's important to see where the backups are slow - for example, 
> the actual data transfer can be fast, and the catalog operations slow. 
> You can see some of that in the job report mail. (That wouldn't be too 
> uncommon, as catalog operations can vary in speed quite a lot, 
> depending on which database you use, and how that database is tuned.)


Hello Arno,

I has news. My problems are not possibly to be searched with bacula.
I receive similar values also with other "block size".
It, however, is still unclear to me where the cause can lie.
Blind to company?


Storage is quick enough.

bacula:/data # dd if=/data/testfile_urandom  of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100000
10000+0 Datensätze ein
10000+0 Datensätze aus
10485760000 Bytes (10 GB) kopiert, 55,5439 s, 189 MB/s

vmstat

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system--
----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy
id wa
 2  0 2252924 122632   4780 3842528    0    0 181172    50 1942 3412  0
 9 73 18
 1  0 2252924 123600   4944 3841136    0    0 178092    10 1921 3361  0
 9 76 15
 2  0 2252924 121876   5120 3842712    0    0 180784     0 1878 3376  0
 9 75 16
 1  1 2252924 120496   5292 3843956    0    0 167332    12 1757 3170  0
 9 76 16
 0  1 2252924 122408   5464 3841696    0    0 177324     0 1856 3385  0
 8 74 17
 0  1 2252924 122568   5640 3841608    0    0 180016     0 1900 3338  0
10 74 16
 0  1 2252924 121100   5820 3842700    0    0 180660     8 1909 3384  0
10 72 18
 0  1 2252924 121620   5996 3841924    0    0 178608     0 1891 3375  0
10 74 16
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here the problem

bacula:/data # dd if=/data/testfile_urandom  of=/dev/nst0 bs=1M count=1000
1000+0 Datensätze ein
1000+0 Datensätze aus
1048576000 Bytes (1,0 GB) kopiert, 185,538 s, 5,7 MB/s

vmstat:

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system--
----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy
id wa
 0  0 2252924 121308   8640 3839784    0    0  6148     0  153  205  0
0 99  1
 0  0 2252924 121208   8652 3839924    0    0  5124    12  131  218  0
1 98  2
 0  0 2252924 120144   8660 3841028    0    0  6152     0  128  176  0
0 99  1
 0  0 2252924 121096   8664 3839844    0    0  5124     8  172  206  0
2 97  1
 0  0 2252924 121136   8668 3839924    0    0  5124     0  116  164  0
1 98  1
 0  0 2252924 121140   8676 3839988    0    0  5128    12  150  173  0
1 98  1
 0  0 2252924 124000   8688 3837056    0    0  7172    48  233  282  0
1 96  3
 0  0 2252924 123852   8704 3837152    0    0  5128    52  214  258  0
1 97  3
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Can it be I should search the mistake with the controller SCSI?
I use an Adaptec 29160 controllers with the standard settings.


scsi 0:0:4:0: Sequential-Access HP       Ultrium 1-SCSI   E32U PQ: 0 ANSI: 3
scsi target0:0:4: Beginning Domain Validation
scsi target0:0:4: wide asynchronous
scsi target0:0:4: FAST-40 WIDE SCSI 80.0 MB/s ST (25 ns, offset 15)
scsi target0:0:4: Domain Validation skipping write tests
scsi target0:0:4: Ending Domain Validation


Do you have one more idea?


Jens


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