The only thing I've done here to improve backup performance (and performance
in general) is using hdparm to maximize IDE throughput. (Yes, I know it's
evil to run servers on IDE, but it's CHEAP.)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Orion Poplawski [mailto:orion AT colorado-research DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 12:54 PM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Performance tuning for Linux
> 
> 
> Just wondering if there is anything that should be done to 
> improve backup 
> performance under linux.  I was thinking along the lines of 
> tape block sizes 
> (variabl, fixed), st driver buffer sizes, etc.  The tape dump 
> program does 
> not appear to be configurable for block size at run time, 
> what does it use?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - Orion Poplawski
>