When looking at different tools, make sure you can get stats on
individual CPUs.  We've had performance problems where the aggregate CPU
usage was well below maxed out.  A single CPU, however, was at
flat-lined at 100% utilization.  We tracked it back to that one CPU
handling network traffic.

Getting a monitoring tool on the clients isn't a bad idea either.  It
may be that they cannot feed the data to the NW server fast enough (e.g.
large file systems with lots of little files).

Good luck.
Teresa


-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:19 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Performance Tuning backup


You might want to install a performance monitoring tool on your  
NetWorker server and let it track processor load for you. You can  
certainly look at the task manager during the backup window and see  
what's up, but a real performance monitoring tool would give you more  
insight into how your server's resources are being used. Being as  
though I primarily work on Solaris and Linux, I can't recommend a  
specific tool, but I am sure some others on this list can.

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