On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 13:53 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:01:37PM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:50 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> > > I Have had a back-up active since 1 o'clock (this night). When I issue
> > > amstatus I can see that it is still active although apparently doing
> > > nothing. It reports one dumper busy with "no-bandwidth". What ican my
> > > problem be and what is this "no-bandwidth"?
> > 
> > I am still puzzled by the "no-bandwidth" report. I do not use network
> > backup so I believe I have oodles of bandwidth. Does amanda have a bug
> > reporting system that I could search for possible bugs in this area?
> 
> 
> Every amanda backup is a "network" backup.  I.e. client -> host.
> That still uses part of the network stack I believe.

OK.
> 
> > 
> ...
> > > 4 dumpers idle  : not-idle
> > > taper idle
> > > network free kps:      2000
> > > holding space   :   3313820k (100.00%)
> > >  dumper0 busy   :  2:26:38  ( 88.61%)
> > >    taper busy   :  0:18:07  ( 10.95%)
> > >  0 dumpers busy :  0:18:49  ( 11.38%)            not-idle:  0:17:45
> > > ( 94.32%)
> > >                                                start-wait:  0:01:04  (
> > > 5.68%)
> > >  1 dumper busy  :  2:26:39  ( 88.62%)        no-bandwidth:  2:04:42
> > > ( 85.03%)
> > >                                                  not-idle:  0:20:01
> 
> 
> I'm on shakey ground here.  This is not a report of the current state, but
> how things went during the run.  Seems like you would allow 4 dumpers max.
> There were times when it could have gone to a second dumper but was
> unable to do so.  The it gives the reasons, only one in yours, multiple
> in Guy's report in the message that follows your in my mailer.
> 
> What do you have netusage set to?

As mentioned in an earlier message, 600 kbps. However, I also have:

define interface local {
    comment "a local disk"
    use 1000 kbps
}

I have now cranked up the latter to 3000 kbps, so I'll see tonight how
that behaves.
> 
-- 
Regards,
Erik P. Olsen