On 2007-09-15 11:16, Dag Nygren revealed:

DN> > On 2007-09-15 03:40, Dag Nygren revealed:
DN> > 
DN> > DN> You could also consider changing the OS to Linux ;-)
DN> > Or Solaris, which has better tape support IMO. :P
DN> It might, but then you need new hardware.

You do? Why? I'm thinking solaris x86 here. Sure, hardware support isn't 
as wide as in Linux, but on the other hand, you will get real responses 
from Sun (hopefully anyway), instead of having to email whoever wrote the 
driver for the linux kernel and pray that he/she will bother. :)

DN> > And one of the new features in the latest Windows 2003 service pack is 
DN> > that network I/O can now be handeled by several CPUs, which might be a 
DN> > good thing on a networker server, if you don't want to switch to a real 
DN> > OS. Or at least one that is better suited for networker and backups. :)
DN> Indeed 2003 is overall handling the Networker load better than 2000
DN> even without the newest service pack. This because 2000 has a huge 
performance
DN> problem because of networking and  tape access competing for the same
DN> buffer pool; Generally limits the throughput of the Networker server
DN> to a total average of 20MB/s (SCSI) or about 30 MB/s (FC).

Oh. Then why are people running networker on windows 2000 at all? :P And I 
know there is a PC and a non-PC answer to that question. ;)

//Oscar

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