Jon,

We also see 'big estimate' output for some partitions.

I assumed some sort of bounding but never looked into
it any further.

Reminds me of the O (big-oh) and omega we'd compute for
algorithms back in computer science class [upper and lower
bounds limits for algorithms]. Something that I suspect is
missing from more current programming classes.

Brian

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:44:19PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> My daily reports regularly contain lines like
> the following (commas added):
> 
> NOTES:
>   big estimate: lastchance Cdrive 1
>                   est: 6,944,416M    out 975,940M
>   big estimate: mumsxp Cdrive 1
>                   est: 3,303,904M    out 288,480M
>   big estimate: vostxp Cdrive 1
>                   est: 1,902,400M    out 390,089M
>   big estimate: vost Home 0
>                   est: 17,729,952M    out 12,318,804M
> 
> The first 3 are Windows partitions and are using ZWC
> on the clients.  They always show up "big".  Others
> show up sporadically, but I can assure you my laptop
> "vost" does not have a 17 terrabyte drive :)
> 
> Obviously these are KB, not MB as the units suffix
> suggests.  But even adjusting for that, the estimates
> are way off.  For example, 6.9GB reported in the above
> compared with 1.4GB dumped in the Summary below.
> 
> DUMP SUMMARY:
>                                DUMPER STATS               TAPER STATS
> HOSTNAME   DISK    L ORIG-MB OUT-MB COMP%  MMM:SS   KB/s MMM:SS   KB/s
> -------------------- ----------------------------------- -------------
> 
> lastchance Cdrive  1    1470    953    65   14:00   1162   0:45  21688
> mumsxp     Cdrive  1     668    282    42   57:34     84   0:12  24040
> vostxp     Cdrive  1     880    381    43    9:28    686   0:17  22946
> vost       Home    0   21726  12030    55  105:22   1948   9:14  22236
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this?
> 
> Jon
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