Re: Troubleshooting a slowdown problem?

2004-06-18 Thread Paul Bijnens
KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: The amanda man page says for the "use" parameter - a positive number means use only that amount - a zero means use all available - a negative number means use all EXCEPT that amount You use parameter fits none of these exactly in that you have a negative zero. Is it pos

Re: Troubleshooting a slowdown problem?

2004-06-18 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
Jon, I apologize. My email reader, GroupWise, doesn't quote lines, so I'd have to manually break each line and insert ">". That gets me into trouble with the other half of the world who want their email readers to adjust line length to the width that they prefer. You know, I've never looked at

Re: Troubleshooting a slowdown problem?

2004-06-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
Boy is it hard to send a reply that makes sense when there is a mixture of unedited top and bottom postings :( On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 01:12:35PM -0400, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: > > >>> Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/18/04 12:43PM >>> > KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: > > > I don't know why the 33G of

Re: Troubleshooting a slowdown problem?

2004-06-18 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
Paul, thanks for your thoughts. I don't think so. The whole amanda.conf concerning the holding disks is: holdingdisk hd1 { comment "main holding disk" directory "/var/amanda" # where the holding disk is use -0Mb# how much space can we use on it. Use everything. chun

Re: Troubleshooting a slowdown problem?

2004-06-18 Thread Paul Bijnens
KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: I don't know why the 33G of holding disk space doesn't seem like enough or isn't getting used. I'll reverse the order of holding disk hd1, which is only 8G, with hd2, 33G, so maybe it'll use the larger one first. Any other parameters in the config for holding disk that could a

Re: Troubleshooting a slowdown problem?

2004-06-18 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
Frank, thanks, again, for your analysis. When you mentioned the connection speed, I remembered that I had to ask our network administrators to change the speed and auto-negotiation properties on the Cisco switch that the old centernet host was plugged into to fix the speed at 100baseTx-FD and tu

Re: Troubleshooting a slowdown problem?

2004-06-17 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, June 17, 2004 17:08:46 -0400 KEVIN ZEMBOWER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ohh, it ended just as I pressed 'send.' Here's the daily report: > These dumps were to tape DailySet104. > The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet105. > > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > admin

Re: Troubleshooting a slowdown problem?

2004-06-17 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
Ohh, it ended just as I pressed 'send.' Here's the daily report: These dumps were to tape DailySet104. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet105. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: admin //db/f$/inetsrv/webpub/images lev 1 STRANGE admin //db/e$ lev 1 STRANGE admin //d

Re: Troubleshooting a slowdown problem?

2004-06-17 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
Eric and Frank, thank you very much for your detailed analysis of my problem. I just noticed on the most recent amstatus I ran that centernet:sda5 completed, and admin:sda3 is now dumping to tape. I've pasted in the most recent amstatus to the end of this note. I guess the reason that it says ju

Re: Troubleshooting a slowdown problem?

2004-06-17 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, June 17, 2004 12:02:29 -0400 KEVIN ZEMBOWER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A couple of months ago, I added a server, centernet, to my Amanda backups. Since > that time, about once a week or two, but not everyday, the backup runs for 16-20 > hours, instead of its normal less than 8.

Re: Troubleshooting a slowdown problem?

2004-06-17 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:02:29PM -0400, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: > A couple of months ago, I added a server, centernet, to my > Amanda backups. Since that time, about once a week or two, but > not everyday, the backup runs for 16-20 hours, instead of its > normal less than 8. It's running right now

Troubleshooting a slowdown problem?

2004-06-17 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
A couple of months ago, I added a server, centernet, to my Amanda backups. Since that time, about once a week or two, but not everyday, the backup runs for 16-20 hours, instead of its normal less than 8. It's running right now since last night at 8:00pm: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > amstatus DailySet1 U