-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In my organization, the Cisco switches we have are simply not reliable enough in autonegotiate mode -- period. Autonegotiate sounds nice in theory, but if you aren't plugging different devices into the port on a regular basis, why risk not knowing what your interface is going to do?
I forget how to check or set this on Solaris, and it generally differs by machine type (I have a 280 someplace but am too lazy to check -- look on Google; I suspect ndd may be involved), but this is a very good place to look. Kern Sibbald wrote: > One user had similar problems with his Sparc and it turned out the problem > was > his switches which are auto speed detecting (10/100Mb). The problem was when > he plugged a device in to the switch, the switch detected the speed then went > into half-duplex mode making Bacula run very slowly. To correct the problem > he had to power off the switch then power it back on. > > On Wednesday 19 July 2006 09:07, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: >> I monitored a machine tonight. >> This is a self-backup machine running both the server and the fd, still on >> a sparc 280r. The avarage throughput is 1Mb/sec, while the network backup >> of another fd is 4Mb/sec. While the machine was backing-up itself, I used >> "top" to see the machine status. It was 4% of CPU load, with 3% assigned to >> postgres (I use postgres as the bacula db). Then there was 0.5% for >> bacula-sd and 0.5% for bacula-fd. >> Maybe I should use some sort of buffering on bacula? >> Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. >> Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 >> Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY >> http://www.sonicle.com >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ------- Da: Hristo Benev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> A: Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Cc: MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Data: 18 luglio 2006 16.43.04 CEST >> Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup on Sparc SunFire 280R >> >> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 16:37 +0200, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: >>> Do you have any suggestion about parameters I may use to optimize the >>> daemons? >> I'm not a developer :( ... unfortunately --> but you need to see where >> is the problem (due high CPU usage; low available RAM etc..) to ask for >> optimizations. >> Furthermore I do not have sparc machines in my setup to give you >> comparison data. >> >>> Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. >>> Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 >>> Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY >>> http://www.sonicle.com >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> --------- >>> >>> Da: Hristo Benev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> A: Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Cc: MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bacula- >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Data: 18 luglio 2006 16.32.54 CEST >>> Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup on Sparc SunFire 280R >>> >>> My opinion is that you have bottleneck somewhere (probably CPU >>> or RAM, >>> network). >>> You need to monitor those machines during backup to see where >>> exactly. >>> >>> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:53 +0200, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: >>> > When the sparc machine are just clients, I may achieve >>> >>> 2-4Mb/sec >>> >>> > When these machines are both servers and clients (backup >>> >>> themselves), >>> >>> > often I achieve less then 1Mb!! >>> > >>> > >>> > Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. >>> > Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 >>> > Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY >>> > http://www.sonicle.com >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> --------- >>> >>> > Da: Hristo Benev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> > A: Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> > Cc: MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bacula- >>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> > Data: 18 luglio 2006 15.43.15 CEST >>> > Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup on Sparc SunFire >>> >>> 280R >>> >>> > Just to exclude network! >>> > >>> > What is the transfer rate that you can achieve with those >>> > servers? >>> > >>> > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:37 +0200, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: >>> > > Oh no. I do not use compression at all. >>> > > And if I'd use compression, I'd use hardware one. >>> > > I don't think it's a problem of compression. >>> > > I have this problem only on sparc machines. >>> > > And they slow down the entire network backup during the >>> > >>> > night >>> > >>> > > Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. >>> > > Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 >>> > > Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - >>> >>> ITALY >>> >>> > > http://www.sonicle.com >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> --------- >>> >>> > > Da: Hristo Benev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> > > A: Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> > > Cc: MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bacula- >>> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> > > Data: 18 luglio 2006 15.16.37 CEST >>> > > Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup on Sparc SunFire >>> > >>> > 280R >>> > >>> > > Do you use compression, because You have difference in >>> > > processing power >>> > > Sparc III is much less powerful than Opteron? >>> > > >>> > > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 13:58 +0200, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: >>> > > > Yes, it's a network backup. The SunFire is running the >>> > >>> > FD. >>> > >>> > > > The server is running on a v20z. >>> > > > This server backup many other machines, but no other >>> >>> one >>> >>> > is >>> > >>> > > running >>> > > >>> > > > that slow. >>> > > > I usually achieve 5-8MB/s both on Windows clients and >>> > >>> > other >>> > >>> > > solaris 10 >>> > > >>> > > > platforms (x86/amd). >>> > > > May it be that the compiled agent for SPARC has some >>> > > >>> > > problem? >>> > > >>> > > > Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. >>> > > > Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 >>> > > > Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - >>> > >>> > ITALY >>> > >>> > > > http://www.sonicle.com >>> >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________________ >>> >>> > > > Da: MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> > > > A: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> > > > Data: 18 luglio 2006 13.22.13 CEST >>> > > > Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup on Sparc >>> >>> SunFire >>> >>> > > 280R >>> > > >>> > > > On 7/14/06, Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> wrote: >>> > > > Hello, >>> > > > I have some bacula installations on SunFire 280R Sparc >>> > > > machines, with Solaris 10. >>> > > > These machines apperar to be very very slow with >>> > > > respect to other installations (such as v20z) with >>> > > > same LTO2 device. >>> > > > As you can see from the report, 60Gb are copied in 9 >>> > > > hours, with an avarage rate of 1898.9 KB/s! >>> > > > On a v20z, the same amount of data is done in 5 hours >>> > > > or less, with an avarage a rate of 3139.2 KB/s.. >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > Are you talking about local backups, i.e. both your >>> > >>> > bacula- >>> > >>> > > fd >>> > > >>> > > > and bacula-sd are running on the same server, or there >>> >>> is >>> >>> > a >>> > >>> > > > network in between? In the latter case you might be >>> > >>> > hitting >>> > >>> > > > the network transfer limit. >>> > > > >>> > > > Cheers, >>> > > > -- >>> > > > Maxx >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> > > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >>> > > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the >>> > > >>> > > chance to share your >>> > > >>> > > > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys >>> >>> -- >>> >>> > > and earn cash >>> > > >>> > > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php? >>> > > >>> > > page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >>> > > >>> > > > _______________________________________________ >>> > > > Bacula-users mailing list >>> > > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula- >>> >>> users >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> > > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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