many thanks to all, it was a problem with bandwidth definitions.

Alexc.

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 12:32 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Vects wrote:
> >  0 dumpers busy :  0:00:00  (  0.00%)
> >  1 dumper busy  :  0:41:06  ( 70.46%)        no-bandwidth:  0:41:06
> > (100.00%)
> >  2 dumpers busy :  0:17:13  ( 29.53%)        no-bandwidth:  0:17:13
> > (100.00%)
> >  3 dumpers busy :  0:00:00  (  0.00%)
> >  4 dumpers busy :  0:00:00  (  0.01%)
> 
> Here you got the reason why amanda did not start other dumpers:
> you configured a too low value for bandwith.
> 
> > define interface eth0 {
> >     comment "10 Mbps ethernet"
> >     use 400 kbps
> > }
> 
> Amanda was already using more than 400kpbs when dumping a DLE
> and here is specified to limit this.
> 
> 
>