It has been a while, title might be the org string from amanda.conf? I'm sorry, it has been years since I ran it regularly.
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Nighswonger <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 11:42 AM To: Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: dumporder ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails. The amplot utility is new to me. Here is what it says when I attempt to run it: root@scriptor:~# amplot /var/log/amanda/server/campus/amdump.20181106020001.debug Displaying graph on the screen, <CR> for next graph : MISSING SPACE DECLARATION "title", line 62: Cannot open script file 'title' I have both gnuplot and gawk installed on the backup server. On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 11:10 AM Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) <[email protected]> wrote: > > Chris, > > There is an amplot utility that I used to run a lot, it would show me what I > was constrained on, often holding space, which if you are running a bunch of > large dumps to start off with could constrain dumping later on. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Chris Nighswonger > Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 11:02 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: dumporder > > ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments > or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails. > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 1:31 PM Chris Nighswonger > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Is there any wisdom available on optimization of dumporder? > > > > After looking over the feedback from Brian and Austin and reviewing the > actual sizes of the DLEs, I ended up with this sort of thing: > > inparallel 15 > dumporder "SSSSSTTTTTsssss" > > Which resulted in a reduced time over what I have been seeing. Here are some > stats from amstatus for this config. It looks like I could drop about half of > the dumpers and still be fine. Any idea what causes the dumpers over the > first five to be utilized less? > > dumper0 busy : 5:13:42 ( 97.98%) > dumper1 busy : 1:12:09 ( 22.54%) > dumper2 busy : 0:40:30 ( 12.65%) > dumper3 busy : 0:33:44 ( 10.54%) > dumper4 busy : 0:03:47 ( 1.19%) > dumper5 busy : 0:37:32 ( 11.73%) > dumper6 busy : 0:02:00 ( 0.62%) > dumper7 busy : 0:00:57 ( 0.30%) > dumper8 busy : 0:05:54 ( 1.85%) > dumper9 busy : 0:04:38 ( 1.45%) > dumper10 busy : 0:00:16 ( 0.08%) > dumper11 busy : 0:01:39 ( 0.52%) > dumper12 busy : 0:00:01 ( 0.01%) > 0 dumpers busy : 0:02:43 ( 0.85%) 0: 0:02:43 (100.00%) > 1 dumper busy : 3:39:13 ( 68.47%) 0: 3:39:13 (100.00%) > 2 dumpers busy : 0:23:10 ( 7.24%) 0: 0:23:10 (100.00%) > 3 dumpers busy : 1:07:57 ( 21.22%) 0: 1:07:57 (100.00%) > 4 dumpers busy : 0:02:09 ( 0.67%) 0: 0:02:09 ( 99.99%) > 5 dumpers busy : 0:01:07 ( 0.35%) 0: 0:01:07 ( 99.98%) > 6 dumpers busy : 0:00:03 ( 0.02%) 0: 0:00:03 ( 99.59%) > 7 dumpers busy : 0:00:43 ( 0.22%) 0: 0:00:24 ( 56.35%) > 5: 0:00:09 ( 22.36%) > 4: 0:00:08 ( 18.89%) > 1: 0:00:01 ( 2.37%) > 8 dumpers busy : 0:00:20 ( 0.10%) 0: 0:00:19 ( 96.50%) > 9 dumpers busy : 0:01:51 ( 0.58%) 0: 0:01:51 ( 99.98%) > 10 dumpers busy : 0:00:41 ( 0.22%) 0: 0:00:37 ( 89.71%) > 5: 0:00:02 ( 7.13%) > 4: 0:00:01 ( 3.09%) > 11 dumpers busy : 0:00:07 ( 0.04%) 5: 0:00:07 ( 99.54%) > 12 dumpers busy : 0:00:00 ( 0.00%) > 13 dumpers busy : 0:00:00 ( 0.00%) > > I am going to give things another week or so and then try breaking up some of > the very large DLEs in the config.
