* Dustin J. Mitchell <[email protected]> [20100621 15:42]: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Jon LaBadie <[email protected]> wrote: > > This time (4:52) is the sum of the total time taken in writing each > > individual DLE (DONE lines in the log). There is overhead, particularly > > when writing multi-part DLEs that is reflected in this number. > .. > > This number (2:21) is the sum of the times actually writing each > > part of the DLEs (PART lines in the log). It does not include > > any overhead time between each part writing.
Thanks Jon for the time to comment. I wan't aware that amreport was doing things this way. > This is completely correct. To my knowledge, this is how Amanda has > always calculated these statistics (we are pretty careful to run the > old and new amreports on a bunch of identical real-world logfiles and > check that the results are the same). I didn't think of running the old-2.6.1 amreport on the logfile and indeed it reports the same write value... I guess bumping up tape_splitsize should speed up things. I'll try that tonight. thanks all, jf > > So the question is: should the report be updated to make this clearer? > And if so, how? This might be a good place for someone to do a bit > of hacking on the new Amanda::Report::human module.. > > Dustin > > -- > Open Source Storage Engineer > http://www.zmanda.com
