On 03/05 04:25 , Anand Gupta wrote:
> Right now the maxbackups is set to 8 (i did this thinking the server was
> powerful enough to handle that many number of clients at one shot). Another
> reason being, there are like 100+ clients in the network, so if the number
> of too low, then all clients might not get backed up. Will try the setting
> and see if anything changes.

Disk contention is the killer; and even on a powerful machine I've not been
able to efficiently run more than 3-4 backups at a time (presuming they're local
machines & fast on their end as well). 

It's hard to judge; but basically if there are a lot of processes waiting
for I/O (a 'D' state in 'top'); try cutting down the number of concurrent
backups. You'll have to judge for yourself what the best number for you is.
It may be that things work fastest when there's a certain amount of disk
contention; but no more and no less.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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