Thanks Barton, I will check out parallelism but was also interested in if there 
were things froim OS level that can tune the kernel as well.  I found the 
following from a Netbackup tuning doc and wondered if it might apply to 
Networker as well:

"On a Solaris server, the increased buffer sizes will almost certainly cause 
NetBackup to exhaust the available shared memory?. This is one of those weird 
Solaris-ism?s where Sun still uses rediculously small default limits on the 
shared memory and IPC subsystems. So we have to update the hard limits built 
into the kernel at boot time by modifying /etc/system. Since we?re in there, 
we?d might as well up the limits on all the little bits we?re likely to bump 
into:

set msgsys:msginfo_msgmni=1024
set msgsys:msginfo_msgtql=1024
set semsys:seminfo_semmni=2048
set semsys:seminfo_semmns=2048
set semsys:seminfo_semopm=128
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=33554432
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=512"


Has anyone tried this for Networker?

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