> Refresh our collective minds, is ambience your server (and a client) > or is it a client only?
ambiance is a client only, whimsy is the server. > When you changed inparallel to 6 (a reduction from default 10) > did you also change maxdumps? No. > My understanding of the two parameters is: > maxdumps refers to the clients -- how many simultaneous dumps > can be running on any one client. I.e. how many backups can > each client stand to run at the same time. Typically 1 but > I often set it to 2 unless there are complaints. I was confused then, I'll try: inparallel 3 maxdumps 2 As most of the 6 jobs were sitting idle anyway. > inparallel refers to the server -- how many client dumps total > can be running at the same time. I.e. how many client dumps > can the server cope with streaming into it at the same time. > It has to deal with putting them to the holding disk and possibly > taping one at the same time. Of course if it also backups up > itself, that is additional load. > > I just reread the amanda.conf man page, and if my understanding > is correct, the client/server distinction is not very clear. > For you to have 12 gtar processes running, it sounds like maxdumps > is set to 6 also (raised from 1). It gives 12 processes because > you have 6 DLEs being dumped and each takes two gtar's, one for > the dump and one to generating the index. Since I had no maxdumps in my amanda.conf perhaps it defaults to the inparallel setting 6 * 2 = 12? I've changed the ACK_WAIT to 10 and made these other changes. I'll let you know how it goes tonight. Steve -- Steven J. Backus Computer Specialist University of Utah E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Biomedical Informatics Alternate: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 391 Chipeta Way -- Suite D150 Office: 801.587.9308 Salt Lake City, UT 84108-1266 http://www.math.utah.edu/~backus
