> > Also, if I run ufsdump on the machine locally, and dump from one disk to
> > another (on the same chain), I get 3-4MB per second.  IF I do that and
> > pipe it through gzip (as amanda does) I get 400KB per second.  But, if
>
> Not related, but you might want to take less compression and better
> speed with the -fast option in your amanda.conf

ALready do that :)

> both cpu's in use correct (psrinfo(1))

Yep.

Actually, the problem is as follows (and after correcting I had the
fastest amanda dump ever):

The Tape server, an SGI Indy, has a Phobos G130 10/100 card.  The Cisco
it's connected to was set to auto-detect, the card was forced 100Full.
So, changing the cisco to force 100Full fixed it.  The interesting thing
is, it only slowed down this one machine.  It turns out that when I did a
huge rack move, the old ethernet line was set correctly, but after the
move the new one wasn't.  So, now all is well, the Sun is better than
ever, and cross-my-fingers, everything is working well.

Thanks for the help!

Tim




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Tim Champ                       IT Support Specialist/Systems Administrator

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