Also, if you're client and server are on the same host, the
network shouldn't enter into the picture, you should be using
SHAREDMEM as your protocol.
-- Tom
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, David Longo wrote:
>Your original post of actlog stats didn't include how many objects
>inspected/backed up. If you have a LOT of small files that would
>account for some of it.
>
>What type of network do you have?
>
>I just looked at some of my stats and I have on the clients I checked
>a Network to Aggregate data transfer time of 2 -1 to 3 -1.
>
>How many sessions does the client use? You can set
>RESOURCEUTILIZATION in dsm.sys on client to increase number
> of sessions - see docs for info. Experiment to see best for you.
>
>I would think you can get better than 8 hours for 70GB. I imagine
>4 -6 hours is as good as you can do.
>
>Have TSM 3.7.4.0 server on AIX 4.3.3 on F50 with 4x 332Mhz CPU
>and 2 GB RAM. IBM 3575 library. Using 155MB ATM network. (Some clients have
>100MB Ethernet.)
>
>
>David B. Longo
>System Administrator
>Health First, Inc.
>3300 Fiske Blvd.
>Rockledge, FL 32955-4305
>PH 321.434.5536
>Pager 321.634.8230
>Fax: 321.434.5525
>david.longo AT health-first DOT org
>
>
>>>> Bill.Wheeler AT LA-Z-BOY DOT COM 08/02/01 01:47PM >>>
>The only client we have is where the server is located. We are running TSM
>to backup one RS/6000 F50 server. And backing up 70 GB in 8 hours doesn't
>seem right. Is there anything that I can do to speed this up. We run a
>Magstar 3570 connected to the F50 server through SCSI.
>
>TSM Version 4.1.2.0
>AIX Version 4.3.3.0
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lindsay Morris [mailto:lmorris AT servergraph DOT com]
>Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 10:19 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: Transfer Rate
>
>
>Aggregate uses wall-clock time;
>Network uses the intervals between when the client says "I'm sending data
>now", to when the server actually receives it.
>
>It's perfectly normal to have aggregate be a lot slower than network.
>
>If you really want to speed up your backups, you need to
>look at the accounting log records (.../server/bin/dsmaccnt.log - see admin
>guide for layout)
>to see which of your clients suffer most from idle wait, media wait, or comm
>wait.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf
>> Of
>> Bill Wheeler
>> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 9:55 AM
>> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>> Subject: Transfer Rate
>>
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I hope a few of the *SMer guru can help me out on this one. I don't
>> know if you have had a problem like this before. The problem is our
>> Aggregate Transfer Rate is allot lower then the Network Transfer
>> Rate. Is
>> there something that I can look at to see if I can get the data moved
>> quicker? Here is a copy of the Activity log with the rates:
>>
>>
>> ANE4961I (Session: 4532, Node: F50_CLIENT) Total number
>>
>> of bytes transferred: 69.33 GB 07/31/01 06:51:30
>>
>> ANE4963I (Session: 4532, Node: F50_CLIENT) Data transfer
>>
>> time: 11,858.22 sec 07/31/01 06:51:30
>>
>> ANE4966I (Session: 4532, Node: F50_CLIENT) Network data
>>
>> transfer rate: 6,130.86 KB/sec 07/31/01 06:51:30
>>
>> ANE4967I (Session: 4532, Node: F50_CLIENT) Aggregate data
>>
>> transfer rate: 2,462.14 KB/sec 07/31/01 06:51:30
>>
>> ANE4968I (Session: 4532, Node: F50_CLIENT) Objects
>>
>> compressed by: 0% 07/31/01 06:51:30
>>
>> ANE4964I (Session: 4532, Node: F50_CLIENT) Elapsed
>>
>> processing time: 08:12:07
>>
>>
>> Any advice would be helpful.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Bill Wheeler
>> AIX Administrator
>> La-Z-Boy Incorporated
>> bill.wheeler AT la-z-boy DOT com <mailto:bill.wheeler AT la-z-boy DOT com>
>>
>
>
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