On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 at 2:37pm, Kai Zimmer wrote

> > As it stands, you don't almost gain anything by
> > parallelizing DLEs:
> > > Run Time (hrs:min)        110:57
> > > Dump Time (hrs:min)       120:52
> 
> Sorry, i didn't completely understand that. Run time can't be lower 
> than dump time, so parallelizing will gain max. 10h ?

I think what he was saying is that your dump time is not much higher than 
your run time, therefore amanda's inherent parallelization isn't gaining 
you much.  "Run time" is the wall clock time from the time you start 
'amdump' until the time it finishes.  "Dump time" is the total time spent 
by all the DUMP programs amanda runs.  Since many DUMPs can be run at 
once, "dump time" *can be* significantly higher than run time -- the 
higher the ratio, the more efficient amanda is running.  If there are ways 
you can improve your parallelization, your run time may go down.  

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University