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[Veritas-bu] Backups running slower for no apparent reason?

2004-12-07 08:36:14
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backups running slower for no apparent reason?
From: Mathew.Kirsch AT PaeTec DOT com (Kirsch, Mathew (Matt))
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 08:36:14 -0500
Netbackup 4.5 MP7 on a Sun V880, Solaris 8 with 8 DLT7000, 4 LTO, and 4
LTO2.

After-hours backups are taking 25-40% longer than they were last Friday.
Nothing changed between Friday and Saturday, but backups that were taking 4
hours now take 5-1/2 hours. 

On Thursday, we increased the value of NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS from 16 to 32. We
also increased shmsys:shminfo_shmmax in /etc/system to 1073741824. The
system was rebooted.

Everything was hunky-dory on Friday. Nothing was any faster, but nothing was
any slower either. On Friday night, I started a manual backup that should
have taken 5 hours. It was still going 7-1/2 hours later. Now, all backups
are running way longer than they used to.