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Re: [Networker] Slow index browsing - additional

2003-07-28 08:13:56
Subject: Re: [Networker] Slow index browsing - additional
From: "Paige, Steve" <Steve.Paige AT CHEP DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:13:48 -0400
At DR we had (10) 250Mhz in a e6000.  We have similar problems in Orlando with 
a e6500 with (10) 400Mhz cpus and 12 gigs of memory.  I figured the nsrd ps was 
single-threaded, how about nsrmmdbd?  The sad thing, NetWorker is the only 
non-system resource running on this system!  This is the first diaster reovery 
test where I have been in charge of the acutal restores and not just the 
rebuilding of systems and I was very disappointed with how NetWorker ran.  If 
we can not restore all our data at the same time (with in reason) in the event 
of a actual Disaster, this product worthless.  It seems NetWorker is not 
scalable and we have gone as far as we can with this product.  

More thoughts please.

Steve 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Davina Treiber [mailto:treiber AT HOTPOP DOT COM]
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 6:03 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Slow index browsing - additional


On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:16:35 +0200, Riaan Louwrens
<riaanl AT SOURCECONSULTING.CO DOT ZA> wrote:

>I would like to jump onto the back of this question and ask whether there
>are any "utilities" for Unix / Solaris etc. We as well have a 480R box that
>seems to only use 1 of the 2 processors. Is there a way to "force"
Networker
>to use a second (i.e. 3rd / 4th - 10th) processor ?
>
>I know from all the guides and diswcussions that Legato is NOT single
>threaded (allegedly), the performance tuning guide does not really say
>anything helpfull at all (disk and tape write speeds tests are 100%). I
>guess performance tuning / debugging on the various OS's are only gained
>through experience ...

This has been discussed fairly recently on the list.

NetWorker as a whole product is not single-threaded, however the nsrd
process is. nsrd can often be the bottleneck, and can be seen to take up
100% of one CPU while others are idle. Over the years, Legato have improved
the efficiency of nsrd, the latest improvement being the splitting of the
res files in 6.2 and 7.0. There is still more to do IMHO.

Because of nsrd being the bottleneck, you will usually find that for a
NetWorker server, faster CPUs is much preferable to more CPUs. A large NW
server will be struggling with 250MHz CPUs on a Sun box, however many of
them you have.

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