On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 at 2:37pm, Kai Zimmer wrote > > As it stands, you don't almost gain anything by > > parallelizing DLEs: > > > Run Time (hrs:min) 110:57 > > > Dump Time (hrs:min) 120:52 > > Sorry, i didn't completely understand that. Run time can't be lower > than dump time, so parallelizing will gain max. 10h ?
I think what he was saying is that your dump time is not much higher than your run time, therefore amanda's inherent parallelization isn't gaining you much. "Run time" is the wall clock time from the time you start 'amdump' until the time it finishes. "Dump time" is the total time spent by all the DUMP programs amanda runs. Since many DUMPs can be run at once, "dump time" *can be* significantly higher than run time -- the higher the ratio, the more efficient amanda is running. If there are ways you can improve your parallelization, your run time may go down. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
