Thanks Ed

But that's hasn't what I wanted to do.

I wanted to find the max speed of tape drive(s) connected to the media 
servers without having to worry about if network or disk was a bottleneck.

Regards
Michael
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 06:41:03 -0600, Ed Wilts wrote
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 01:32:19PM +0100, ida3248b AT post.cybercity DOT dk 
> wrote:
> > I need to test our tape drives outside NBU to se what max throughput is.
> > 
> > I thought there was a thread about this but I can't find it.
> > 
> > I want to eliminate network/disk.
> 
> I found a network testing utility called iperf that I ran between a
> medai server and one of my clients.  It helped me prove that we did not
> have the network problem I thought we had.  iperf lets you go from
> memory to memory between hosts.  My tests were between Linux and
> Windows.  I wasn't able to get the Solaris version built but then I'm
> not a developer either.
> 
> There's supposed to be a way of doing a NetBackup command but to have
> the media server throw the data away instead of writing it to tape 
> but I can't remember how this is done.  That lets you test client 
performance
> as well as network.  I have seen client CPU be a limiting factor too.
> 
> -- 
> Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
> mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org


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