>I've been wrestling with some fairly slow backups for a while now. I
>have amanda 2.4.2 server, running a dual 733 dell rack server, (256mb
>ram, UW scsi disk) with a 3com 100mb switch stack. ...
The first thing that always pops to mind when 100Mbit is involved is a
duplex mismatch. If one side is full and the other half (where "side"
may be a switch, not a host), really bad things occur.
What happens if you do an ftp put of several MBytes from the client to
/dev/null on the server?
Are you seeing lots of errors with netstat?
>the only thing I can
>think of that is slowing the backup down is GNUtar on the SGI's
>...
>I also noticed a bug in the SGI sendsize, it's counting the number of
>blocks, which are 512 bytes, not 1024, but reporting them as Kbytes.
Huh? If you're using GNU tar, then the output is OS independent. We'd be
seeing this on every system. What led you to believe there is a problem?
If you run the command listed in /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug, what does
the output look like? What did sendsize return?
>Ben Kochie
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
