What kind of optimiaztion does amanda use while flushing dumps to tape? While doing the dump initially, she seems to optimize to get the small jobs done first, and thus they go onto tape in a similar
Author: Galen Johnson <gjohnson AT trantor DOT org>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:28:45 -0500
What kind of optimiaztion does amanda use while flushing dumps to tape? While doing the dump initially, she seems to optimize to get the small jobs done first, and thus they go onto tape in a simila
Author: Jean-Louis Martineau <martinea AT iro.umontreal DOT ca>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 17:36:49 -0500
There is no optimazation, first in, first out. That's a need feature. Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: martineau AT IRO.UMontreal DOT CA Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Su
Author: "C. Chan" <cchan AT surya.bsd.uchicago DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 17:35:05 -0600 (CST)
Also Sprach Jean-Louis Martineau: Isn't the general knapsack problem one of these P==NP cases like the traveling salesman problem? This might be challenging even for the Amanda developers. I don't wa
Isn't the general knapsack problem one of these P==NP cases like the traveling salesman problem? This might be challenging even for the Amanda developers. I don't want the packing estimate time to e
Author: Gene Heskett <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 22:41:06 -0500
Humm, from a recent example/amanda.conf: -- dumporder "sssS" # specify the priority order of each dumper -- I'm assuming that when Deb asked about it, using the word 'flushing', that Deb meant a norm
Author: Gene Heskett <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:47:37 -0500
Yeah, I know, I'm talking to myself :-) In some circles, thats considered to be 'poor form'. But, see below. Yes, its working according to an 'SSSsss' setting from the looks of it, it started with /u
Author: Gene Heskett <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 04:21:15 -0500
Continued, with another "ps:" Ok, it appears that with the compression being done in software, it smunched that 2.6 gigs worth of /usr/src down to 1.6 gigs. By the time it was done, it had written on
Here's a basic algorithm (in pseudo-code). Is this useful to somebody who is already working on this code? Or should I attempt to fit it into the actual taper code myself? Deb Baddorf == This *shoul