Olivier Nicole wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed yesterday that one of my clients suddenly became very slow:
> 
> by wall clock, seeing the file grows on the holding disk, it takes 9
> minutes for 5 MB of GNUTAR level 2. previous run (Apr. 28th) for the
> same machine, same DLE, same level was 107 KB/s for the dump according
> to Amanda report.

That works out to about 9kB/s, which is pretty slow.
Do you have a duplex mismatch or other errors on the network interface
or switch port?
Are you seeing any system messages about read errors on your disks?
Have you recently changed OS/kernel/tar versions?
What does the Amanda report show for dumper time and taper time for
the DLE?

Frank

> 
> The slowness can be seen for every DLE on that client. Other than
> that, the client is working fine, load average is close to 0, it is
> not swapping or anything, network seems to be working fine.
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> I will run some more diagnostics later, once the backup is finished.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Olivier
> 
> 


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