* Dustin J. Mitchell <[email protected]> [20100621 20:52]: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I guess bumping up tape_splitsize should speed up things. > > I'll try that tonight. > > You may want to check out the taper debug logs, too - it's a very > common misconfiguration to set tape_splitsize but not > split_diskbuffer, and thus fall back to the default in-memory > splitsize of 10M, which is fantastically small.
been there done that ;) split_diskbuffer is configured to a decent value, even though dumping directly to tape without a holddisk is a no no afaic. regards, jf > > We're working on a fix for this in 3.2 - and probably also moving the > splitting configuration to the tapetype. > > Dustin > > -- > Open Source Storage Engineer > http://www.zmanda.com
