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Re: [Networker] Confused about parallelism

2009-11-14 03:18:38
Subject: Re: [Networker] Confused about parallelism
From: Dag Nygren <dag AT newtech DOT fi>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:16:12 +0200
fredag 13 november 2009 02:36:36 skrev  MIchael Leone:
> Assuming 2 pools, and 8 tape drives - I want to limit the number of
> concurrent drives that any 1 pool can use to 5. I thought setting the
> library max parallelism to 5 would accomplish that for me. But that turns
> out not to be the case. I've re-read about client, server and savegrp
> paralleism, but they all seem to refer to numbers of savesets running at
> the same time. But I want to limit the max number of devices that a pool
> can write to at any one time.; I'm not so worried about the number of
> savesets running at the same time.
> 
> I could, of course, assign specific tape drives to specific pools, But I
> thought for sure there was a way to do without hard-coding specific drives
> to specific pools.
> 
> Pointer, anyone?

At least in 7.5.1 there is a "Max parallelism" in the pool settings that is 
supposed to do exactly that. Not quite sure in what version it got there 
though. Haven't tested it either

Best
Dag

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