OK, so all my clients are compressing. I have 13 clients and about 5 of them are Solaris using dump, the rest are using tar. Could someone explain why the dumpers are also spawning a 'gzip --best' process? They only use 5 or 6 seconds of CPU so they are not doing much but I don't see why they start.
Another question is the status 'no-bandwidth'. I have been assuming this is network bandwidth. I am running 89 DLEs, 13 clients, 6 dumpers (also tried 4 and 13) and amstatus reports network free as high as 10200 and as low as 1200. With 4 dumpers, all dumpers ran without a break. With 13 dumpers, by the middle of the run 11 were idle for no bandwidth. I raised my netusage from 1200 to 4200 and tonight with 6 dumpers, by the last third of the run, one dumper idled with no bandwidth yet network usage was 10200. I'm not sure I'm reading this right. 10200 free would suggest that something like 1200 is being used and I thought that bandwidth limiting wouldn't happen until the next dumper to start would push network usage ABOVE 4200. I also assume that a usage of 4200 would show up as something like network free of about 7000 yet I have a network free of 10200. What am I missing here? Dana Bourgeois
