Francis Swasey <Frank.Swasey AT uvm DOT edu> wrote on 11/16/2009 02:07:51 PM:

> Michael,
> 
> When I did some bigasm work on Windows, I used the following:
> 
> ===== bigasm.file =====
> << ./ >>
>     bigasm -S100G : bigasm.test
> ====================
> 
> ===== bigasm.bat =====
> echo "" | time
> save -s nsrserverhost.uvm.edu -f c:\bigasm.file c:\bigasm.test
> echo "" | time
> ====================
> 
> ====== bigasm.test ======
> bigasm -S100M : bigasm.test
> ======================
> 
> That wrote 100GB file to wherever I had configured that client to go... 
> (and you will want to replace nsrserverhost.uvm.edu with your own 
> networker server host name in the bigasm.bat file)

That did it. So my problems don't seem to be individual tape drive speed 
related - I wrote a 50G file in a little under 8 minutes, averaging 
170MB/sec writing speed, according to what I was watching in NMC.

Now, I guess I try and tune down server parallelism ...

Thanks

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