Ok,
a couple of responses thus far. Some further info.
The software I can tune myself. I was more looking for Linux specific
tuning.
* Yes, I was/am concerned about I/O.
* But also ensuring the OS itself (system processes) is not hindering
anything otherwise.
* The RAID is the storage medium. (Hardware RAID)
* Incremental change analysis is done client side.
* Dual P4's / 1GB RAM
* Filesys is ext3 mounted with 'defaults'
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Kind Regards
Kyle
Daniel Pittman wrote:
You have not even given enough information about what you intend to use
it for:
* what parts of performance are you concerned about?
* what is the backup software?
* how does it get data from the clients?
* where does it spool that data temporarily?
* where does it store it finally?
* what compression, format transformation, etc happens to the data?
* what filesystem are you planning to use, and is that fixed?
* can you use something other than RAID5?
* is it software RAID, hardware, or FakeRAID?
* What sort of dual CPU is it -- two sockets, two cores, or one HT CPU?
* how much memory do you have?
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