On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:36:04AM -0600, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 8:03 AM, stan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a suspicion that we may be having network issues (loading ?). But i > > wanted the wisdom of the list on the, befoe I go try to get that addressed. > > What does this look like to you all? > > If your network is using WRED or any other drop-packets-deliberately > queueing strategy, Amanda's UDP-based protocols will be hit > particularly hard. UDP doesn't automatically retransmit, so Amanda > has to do it, and Amanda's algorithms aren't quite up to TCP's (now 33 > year-old!) capabilities. > Thanks.
We moved to all TCP (bsd_auth) 6 months or so agao, as Amanda became unusable using UDP. Problem is, now I am starting to see teh same behavior with TCP, or at least that's what I am afraid is hapening. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
