Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly takes too much time

2010-04-08 Thread Norbert Schulze
What filesystem are you using? The standard filesystem of ubuntu 9.10 = EXT4 Regards Norbert -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively,

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly takes too much time

2010-04-08 Thread Norbert Schulze
Using PAE, you can have 3.5 G of usable ram on a system. HOWEVER, each r...@server:~# uname -a Linux server 2.6.31-20-generic-pae #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 06:25:51 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux Currently still running admin4/8 01:00 BackupPC_nightly -m 0 255 11896 top - 09:47:18 up 19 days,

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly takes too much time

2010-04-08 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 05:02:33PM -0400, Josh Malone wrote: OS is Ubuntu 9.04 32Bit IMHO it is better to migrate to a 64Bit-System!? I don't see an urgent reason to migrate to 64 bit... I would have installed this machine 64 bit at the beginning, just because it's a 64 bit machine.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly takes too much time

2010-04-08 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 01:03:18PM +0200, Norbert Schulze wrote: Or just post the output of vmstat 10 10 r...@server:~# vmstat 10 10 procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io -system-- cpu r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo in cs us sy id wa

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly takes too much time

2010-04-08 Thread Norbert Schulze
Hello Tino, Your I/O system seems saturated (70-80% of time is spent waiting for I/O). Try running only one BackupPC_nightly in parallel. Yesterday i set $Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} = 2; to $Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} = 1; Currently still running :-/ admin4/8 01:00 BackupPC_nightly

[BackupPC-users] Windows 98 anonymous share help

2010-04-08 Thread XP_2600
I have some Windows 98 with anonymous share, i can access it without password from any other windows machine, what is the user name and password which i have to assign to backuppc to be able to back them up, i tried to move $Conf{SmbShareUserName} $Conf{SmbSharePasswd} but its still not

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly takes too much time

2010-04-08 Thread Gerald Brandt
Hi, - Norbert Schulze n...@nurfuerspam.de wrote: Hello Tino, Your I/O system seems saturated (70-80% of time is spent waiting for I/O). Try running only one BackupPC_nightly in parallel. Yesterday i set $Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} = 2; to $Conf{MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs} = 1;

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly takes too much time

2010-04-08 Thread Norbert Schulze
Hello Gerald, Is this running in a VM? I often see high CPU wait times when doing disk I/O in a VM. No, it is a normal system with a hardware raid-controller. Regards Norbert -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly takes too much time

2010-04-08 Thread Daniel Berteaud
Le jeudi 08 avril 2010 à 15:36 +0200, Norbert Schulze a écrit : Hello Gerald, Is this running in a VM? I often see high CPU wait times when doing disk I/O in a VM. No, it is a normal system with a hardware raid-controller. Do you have a BBU on the raid controler ? Hardware RAID

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly takes too much time

2010-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/8/2010 8:36 AM, Norbert Schulze wrote: Hello Gerald, Is this running in a VM? I often see high CPU wait times when doing disk I/O in a VM. No, it is a normal system with a hardware raid-controller. Raid5? That has horrible write performance, especially with small writes like the

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly takes too much time

2010-04-08 Thread Norbert Schulze
Hello Daniel, Do you have a BBU on the raid controler ? ADAPTEC 3805 RAID SAS/SATA 8−Kanal Hardware RAID without BBU (and of course, without write-back cache enabled) is usually *very* slow, much slower than simple disk system, or software RAID. When you look at my other postings, the

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly takes too much time

2010-04-08 Thread Norbert Schulze
Raid5? That has horrible write performance, It is a RAID50 IMHO: BackupPC_nightly mainly reads from disk!? If you aren't pressed for disk space you might improve things by increasing $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} so it only traverses part I change this now to 4 Regards Norbert

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly takes too much time

2010-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/8/2010 9:48 AM, Norbert Schulze wrote: Raid5? That has horrible write performance, It is a RAID50 IMHO: BackupPC_nightly mainly reads from disk!? It traverses the pool directory, stat()'ing each inode (which isn't like to be near the directory) looking for entries that only have one

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly takes too much time

2010-04-08 Thread Ryan Manikowski
On 4/8/2010 12:23 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 4/8/2010 9:48 AM, Norbert Schulze wrote: Raid5? That has horrible write performance, It is a RAID50 IMHO: BackupPC_nightly mainly reads from disk!? It traverses the pool directory, stat()'ing each inode (which isn't like to be