On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Thursday 19 September 2002 08:52, Jason Greenberg wrote:
> >I cron schedule my amanda dump for 12:45 am, but it doesn't
> > complete until about 9:00am.  If I look at my switch graphs, the
> > data transfer only takes about 1 hour.  What is it doing the rest
> > of the time???
>
> Try running amplot, you might be able to decode that better than I.
> It will show you what it was doing and for how long.

This is really the best way to understand how amanda is spending her
time.  What things are being done in parallel, what resources are fully
or under-fully used, etc.  If you want to know what one change will buy
you the most speedup, study a cycle's worth of amplot graphs.

-Mitch