Hi,

since one week ago, my daily backups are taking more than 2 days to
complete! I dont know why yet, but just one directory in a client
machine (host2:/var/vpopmail) is taking a lot of time, as seen in the
output of the amstatus below. Here is the amanda proccess right now
running in the client machine:

amanda   32319  0.0  0.1  1552  436  ??  S    Mon07AM   0:12.50
/usr/local/amanda/libexec/sendbackup
amanda   32320  0.0  0.1  1552  352  ??  S    Mon07AM   4:47.62
/usr/local/amanda/libexec/sendbackup
amanda   32322  0.0  0.0   628    0  ??  IW   -         0:00.00 sh -c
/usr/local/bin/tar -tf - 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's/^\\.//'
amanda   32323  0.0  0.1  1068  372  ??  S    Mon07AM   2:47.97
/usr/local/bin/tar -tf -
amanda   32324  0.0  0.1   972  368  ??  S    Mon07AM   0:10.05 sed -e
s/^\\.//

Im not using compression neither in the server or the client.
host2:/var/vpopmail contains 2.4 GB of data, with 168577 files.

The strange is that it begins to happen with no reason.... 
My guess is that gnu tar is eating all the time...

AMSTATUS OUTPUT:

host1:/etc        0    1184k finished (0:09:56)
host1:/root       0      32k finished (0:09:10)
host1:/usr/adm    0   29440k finished (0:10:48)
host1:/usr/home   0      32k finished (0:09:28)
host1:/usr/local  0  169920k finished (0:14:27)
host1:/var/qmail  0    1184k finished (0:09:44)
host2:/etc          0    1120k finished (0:11:01)
host2:/root         0   91936k finished (1:06:02)
host2:/usr/home     0      32k finished (0:10:00)
host2:/usr/local    0  701824k finished (8:50:05)
host2:/usr/share    0   94560k finished (2:00:00)
host2:/var/qmail/control 0      32k finished (0:09:25)
host2:/var/qmail/supervise 0      32k finished (0:09:14)
host2:/var/qmail/users 0      32k finished (0:09:40)
host2:/var/vpopmail 0 4473120k finished (2+5:47:06)

SUMMARY          part     real estimated
                          size      size
partition       :  15
estimated       :  15            5961992k
failed          :   0                  0k           (  0.00%)
wait for dumping:   0                  0k           (  0.00%)
dumping to tape :   0                  0k           (  0.00%)
dumping         :   0        0k        0k (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
dumped          :  15  5564480k  5961992k ( 93.33%) ( 93.33%)
wait for writing:   0        0k        0k (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
writing to tape :   0        0k        0k (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
failed to tape  :   0        0k        0k (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
taped           :  15  5564480k  5961992k ( 93.33%) ( 93.33%)
4 dumpers idle  : not-idle
taper idle
network free kps:     1900
holding space   : 11918382k (100.00%)
 dumper0 busy   : 2+4:36:05  ( 98.08%)
 dumper1 busy   :  0:00:00  (  0.00%)
   taper busy   :  1:16:16  (  2.37%)
 0 dumpers busy :  1:01:52  (  1.92%)            not-idle:  1:00:56  (
98.50%)
                                               start-wait:  0:00:55  ( 
1.50%)
 1 dumper busy  : 2+4:36:06  ( 98.08%)            not-idle: 1+20:05:42 
( 83.83%)
                                        client-constrained:  8:27:35  (
16.08%)
                                              no-bandwidth:  0:02:00  ( 
0.06%)
                                                start-wait:  0:00:47  ( 
0.03%)
 2 dumpers busy :  0:00:00  (  0.00%)