On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:53:57PM +0200, Vlad Popa wrote:
> Hello Jon !
> 
> Jon LaBadie schrieb:
> 
> >On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:05:21PM +0200, Vlad Popa wrote:
> 
> >I'll ask Paul's question slightly differently.
> >How can you WANT to run any slower (see below).
> >
> 
> >>DUMP SUMMARY:
> >>                                   DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS
> >>HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-kB OUT-kB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
> >>-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
> >>h50234       /etc        0    2440   2440   --    0:03 930.1   9:26   4.3
> >>   
> >
> >This was your biggest, and speediest successful taping.
> >It only ran at 4300 bytes/sec
...
> >Something is seriously wrong with your network connection to your vtape.
> >I strongly urge you to fix your network connection rather than continue
> >to try to get amanda (or any application) to work with a broken network.
> >

> You are absolutely right Jon, but I cannot tweak more the lufs.

I was thinking more of the hardware end of the setup.  There have been
frequent mentions of poor network performance when a switch and host
are not configured correctly.  Sometimes depending on the auto-config
feature of the switch or host does not give the best connection.

> I have tested native ftp transfers to this host (beside lufs) which were 
> at about 4.3 mb per sec ("ftp  hostname"  and then "put  file ..") for 
> several files differring significantly in their size. The rate did not 
> fall below 4 megs per sec.

Just an interesting observation, amanda sees 4.3 kb/sec, you got 4.3 mb/sec
for ftp transfers.

No other way to access that remote disk than still beta lufs and ftp?

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