I don't start any groups simultaneously, but several more than 3 run
concurrently with no issues.  Our backup server doesn't back up anything
directly so the I/O is delegated to remote storage nodes.  But it is still
significantly sized essentially like we might size a database server.

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Browning, David <DBrown AT lsuhsc DOT edu> 
wrote:

> On FULL backup weekends, we easily have more than 3 groups, and can have
> as many as 7 or 8 groups running at the same time.   Not the best
> practice, as you can see a significant issue in regards to system
> resources on the backup server.  I find that older machines have more of
> an issue than newer hardware.
>
>
> David M. Browning Jr.
> IT Project Coordinator Enterprise Backups and Help Desk
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
> On
> Behalf Of Yaron Zabary
> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 11:57 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Recomennded concurrent groups.
>
> Hello all,
>
>   Recently, I discussed my nsrjobd issues with my support engineer and
> after he inspected daemon.log, he said that running more than three
> groups at the same time is against EMC's best practice and that if he
> will try to open a case with EMC, I will need to run less than three
> groups at the same time before they will start looking into the problem.
>
> Luckily, he found esg93651 so there is no need to "fix" the parallel
> groups problem. I can have as much as ten groups at a time and  I
> wonder, how many groups other people are running concurrently ?
>
>   Also, can someone point me at this best practice guide which suggests
>
> to limit the number of groups?
>
> --
>
> -- Yaron.
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