Re: [Bacula-users] Slowdown after OS upgrade

2007-08-08 Thread Tod Hagan
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 12:39 -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > On 7 Aug 2007 at 11:57, Tod Hagan wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 20:31 -0400, John Drescher wrote: > > > I doubt that the tape drive is the cause. Did you make any database > > > changes? > > > > Sort of. A more recent postgresql package

Re: [Bacula-users] Slowdown after OS upgrade

2007-08-07 Thread Dan Langille
On 7 Aug 2007 at 11:57, Tod Hagan wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 20:31 -0400, John Drescher wrote: > > > Below I've included some output from tapeinfo as the scsi tape driver is > > > the most likely source of the slowdown. I've tried 'mt -f /dev/nst0 > > > stsetoptions buffer-writes async-writes'

Re: [Bacula-users] Slowdown after OS upgrade

2007-08-07 Thread Tod Hagan
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 20:31 -0400, John Drescher wrote: > > Below I've included some output from tapeinfo as the scsi tape driver is > > the most likely source of the slowdown. I've tried 'mt -f /dev/nst0 > > stsetoptions buffer-writes async-writes' with no effect. > > > > I'd really appreciate som

Re: [Bacula-users] Slowdown after OS upgrade

2007-08-04 Thread Stephen Carr
Dear John May I ask if there are jobs queued waiting to be backed up. Also are you using MySQL. I had a similar problem with2.0.3 - what I noticed is a job starting with high rate and as jobs got queued behind it the the rate declined and also the system started to consume swap space and event

Re: [Bacula-users] Slowdown after OS upgrade

2007-08-02 Thread John Drescher
> Below I've included some output from tapeinfo as the scsi tape driver is > the most likely source of the slowdown. I've tried 'mt -f /dev/nst0 > stsetoptions buffer-writes async-writes' with no effect. > > I'd really appreciate some ideas on increasing the backup speeds to the > levels we used to

Re: [Bacula-users] Slowdown after OS upgrade

2007-08-02 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tod Hagan wrote: > All, > > We recently upgraded the machine running Bacula to Red Hat Enterprise > Linux 5 from RHEL 3 and now see a much slower transfer rate during > backups. The version of Bacula is unchanged, 1.38.8, except for > re-compilation a

[Bacula-users] Slowdown after OS upgrade

2007-08-02 Thread Tod Hagan
All, We recently upgraded the machine running Bacula to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 from RHEL 3 and now see a much slower transfer rate during backups. The version of Bacula is unchanged, 1.38.8, except for re-compilation against the updated libraries. One backup, which ran at 8772.2 to 12671.3 KB