Joel,
Take a look at this tech note.  Looks like there is a bug in 7.5 that maybe 
causing your slowness.


Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:25 pm    Post subject: Re: cloning very slow in 
Networker 7.5.1   

________________________________
 
If
you are running on Solaris, there is a known issue (starting in 7.5.x)
that is causing slowdowns in all cloning. The release notes stated
this, on page 46... 


Quote: 

Solaris 9 users who upgrade from NetWorker 7.2.x may notice errors during 
cloning operations 
LGTsc07111 
Customers upgrading from 7.2.x may notice errors similar to the following 
during 
cloning operations: 
38758 11/27/08 16:21:45 2 0 0 1 23334 0 <hostname> nsrd media 
warning: /dev/rmt/0cbn writing: posix async write: Error 0 
42506 11/27/08 16:21:45 2 0 0 1 23334 0 <hostname> nsrd media 
notice: LTO Ultrium-4 tape 64U00S00 on /dev/rmt/0cbn is full 
42506 11/27/08 16:21:45 2 0 0 1 23334 0 <hostname> nsrd media 
notice: LTO Ultrium-4 tape 64U00S00 used 89 MB of 800 GB capacity 
Workaround 
These issues may be related to a Solaris operating system limitation. If you 
experience these errors, disabling asynchronous I/O capability may resolve the 
problem. 
To disable async I/O capability: 
1. Shut down NetWorker 
2. Set the DISABLE_SOL_ASYNC_IO environment variable in the NetWorker 
startup script. The default location of the startup script is 
/etc/init.d/networker. 
3. Re-start NetWorker using the NetWorker startup script 
Note: With Async I/O disabled, performance impacts may be noticed during 
cloning 
operations. 

Slow performance on Solaris 10 because asynchronous I/O is disabled 
LGTsc24548 
Due to a Solaris 10 operating system issue, asynchronous tape input/output 
operations are disabled by default. As a result, some I/O intensive operations 
such 
as cloning will be slower.   



----- Original Message ----
From: Joel Fisher <jfisher AT WFUBMC DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 8:11:42 PM
Subject: [Networker] Sun Hardware

Hey Guys,



Can anyone give me an idea of how many lto-4 drives a T2000 or T5220
could keep streaming.



Assumptions.

Data is landed on disk(adv_file) then cloned to LTO-4 drives during the
day.

The disk is not a bottle neck.

Plenty of hbas so connectivity is not a bottleneck



Could I have say 3 landing areas and then stream to 3 LTO-4
simultaneously.  Somewhere between 120-240MB/s?



Any real world users of something like this.



I know these servers can seriously move some data, I guess my main
concern, is can they move a single stream fast enough for LTO-4 or
LTO-5?  Since any individual thread is limited to the 1.2-1.6Mhz.



Any advice here would be appreciated.



Thanks!



Joel 


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