On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:46:30AM +0000, Keith Matthews wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:15:01 -0500
> > Did you perchance increase the etimeout and dtimeout values first?
> > 
> 
> Nope, partly as there is either no documentation on them or it's well
> hidden.


Yup, we keep the man page for amanda well hidden :))


> > ... .  As long as the spindle numbers used are 
> > assigned to the individual drive per number, I've not even had any 
> > disk thrashing problems either.
> > 
> 
> This was all one spindle.


But did you tell amanda that?  If you don't tell it, by indicating which
DLE's are on the same spindle, amanda assumes each is a separate
spindle and might try many simultaneous dumps from that spindle.

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