The discussion over the various BackupPC scenarios got me to thinking. My server IS disk bound. All the servers it backs up on on at least a 100M network link in the same room and some on 1G. With th
Author: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:05:18 -0500
It's an awfully good question, but there probably isn't a single right answer. My server is a quad-cpu beast on a gigabit network, but I settled on two backups at a time after measuring degradation (
Hi the "perfect" max load should be the number of cpus you have, so a quad-core server can sustain a load of 4 without any problem... after that number, the higher the load, the higher will be the pe
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Michael Stowe <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org> wrote: It's an awfully good question, but there probably isn't a single right answer. My server is a quad-cpu beast
the "perfect" max load should be the number of cpus you have, so a quad-core server can sustain a load of 4 without any problem... after that number, the higher the load, the hig
Hi i'm not saying that backuppc is cpu bound, i'm describing what is the "perfect" load, as he asked... the "s in the perfect is because its not the only metric needed to check how a machine is going
Author: Tino Schwarze <backuppc.lists AT tisc DOT de>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 14:51:01 +0200
[...] I'd add some memory first. 4GB is so cheap these days and it helps a lot for disk caching. I've seen a performance boost by upgrading from 2 GB to 6 GB on a quad core Xeon which is also heavily