Either the buffer is too big or the tape drive is not keeping up.

Regards
Peter Marelas

-----Original Message-----
From: Weber, Philip [mailto:Philip.Weber AT egg DOT com] 
Sent: Thursday, 19 September 2002 6:56 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Memory allocation - Solaris 8


What about "waited for empty buffer" ?

thanks, Phil

Phil Weber
IT Infrastructure Unix Systems Engineer

Phone: 01384 26 4136
Mobile: n/a



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Moody [mailto:mattm AT m-c-s DOT com]
> Sent: 17 September 2002 16:08
> To: Tricia C. Sesar; Andy Skates; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Memory allocation - Solaris 8
> 
> 
> Start logging bptm.  After your backups have completed, go
> through the log
> file and see if there are large repetative delays.
> 
> 1.  Waited for full buffer = data buffer size is too large
> 2.  Waited for buffer = too few buffers
> 
> If using DLT, I agree on the 64k buffer size replied to
> earlier.  Start with
> 64k and 8 data buffers and work up from there.
> 
> Matt Moody
> MCSI


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