[Veritas-bu] Anyone have any tweaks for LTO-4 and emulex cards under RHEL5?

2008-04-30 Thread Justin Piszcz
I am only seeing 8-10MiB/s directly from RAM (/dev/shm) where if I write the same data to an LTO-3, I see regular speeds, 60-90MiB/s no problems? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone have any tweaks for LTO-4 and emulex cards under RHEL5?

2008-04-30 Thread Jason Slagle
Having just gone through that (Albiet with Qlogic) this is what I did: Make sure the st driver is set to a reasonable buffer size (I did this in /etc/modprobe.conf): options st buffer_kbs=1024 echo 1048576 /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS echo 1048576

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone have any tweaks for LTO-4 and emulex cards under RHEL5?

2008-04-30 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am only seeing 8-10MiB/s directly from RAM (/dev/shm) where if I write the same data to an LTO-3, I see regular speeds, 60-90MiB/s no problems? What happens if you don't use NetBackup and use native tar to go directly

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone have any tweaks for LTO-4 and emulex cards under RHEL5?

2008-04-30 Thread Justin Piszcz
Yeah yeah that was it I figured it after I sent the e-mail I was in a rush to get these new serves up and forgot about the SIZE_* vars, getting 100MiB/s per tape drive now no problems. On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Jason Slagle wrote: Having just gone through that (Albiet with Qlogic) this is what I

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone have any tweaks for LTO-4 and emulex cards under RHEL5?

2008-04-30 Thread Justin Piszcz
Thanks btw ;) On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote: Yeah yeah that was it I figured it after I sent the e-mail I was in a rush to get these new serves up and forgot about the SIZE_* vars, getting 100MiB/s per tape drive now no problems. On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Jason Slagle wrote:

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone have any tweaks for LTO-4 and emulex cards under RHEL5?

2008-04-30 Thread Justin Piszcz
Btw there was a good HP doc, 32 for the NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS and 256k for the SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS is the best. 32 (48) was not any better, but 32 16 was a definite gain in performance. Justin. On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Jason Slagle wrote: Having just gone through that (Albiet with Qlogic) this

Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone have any tweaks for LTO-4 and emulex cards under RHEL5?

2008-04-30 Thread Justin Piszcz
Also for net_buffer_sz I use 1megabyte.. Also the one everyone forgets: NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS_RESTORE This definitely can speed up restores as well I use 32 for that too) On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Jason Slagle wrote: Having just gone through that (Albiet with Qlogic) this is what I did: Make sure