Networker

Re: [Networker] Performance Tuning backup

2007-07-26 10:55:22
Subject: Re: [Networker] Performance Tuning backup
From: Davina Treiber <Davina.Treiber AT PEEVRO.CO DOT UK>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:51:54 +0100
E Gold wrote:
I have done monitoring and eliminated these as bottlenecks:

Server network
Tape drivesMemory

Possible bottlenecks:

Cpus (server has 4 xeon 2.8ghz with hyperthreading enabled)
Client network (doubt it since it has 2 gigabit nics in a team)


I feel this is either a cpu or networker tuning issue.

If I was in your position I would run tests with bigasm.

First I would run bigasm locally from the server. Set the target sessions to 1 on all drives and test with one session, two sessions etc. If this scales well to all six drives I would try bigasm on your Lotus client, again with one session, then two sessions, perhaps all the way up to 12 sessions. These tests should point you to the next steps depending on the results.

I won't continue, because there are already many combinations of possible results. Try these tests and report back.

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