From: Stephen T. <st...@se...> - 2009-11-30 19:52:21
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Hello all, I was curious what type of load averages people were seeing on their bacula servers... A couple of weeks ago we converted our Solaris (5.10) to Linux (Centos 5.4) and are now seeing consistently higher loads. Same hardware (literally). We monitor the load average on our server and the history shows a consistent load average on Solaris of between 0-1 (occasional peaks above) and a consistent load average on Linux of 2-4 (occasional peaks above, though seldom below unless "literally" idle). Hardware: 2 2.8GHz AMD Opteron dual-core processors 8Gb memory 2Gb swap 2 LTO-3 Drives 1 153-slot SL500 Library Backup Scenario: ~150 incremental hosts per day ~150 differential hosts per week ~5 full hosts per day (150/month) --------------- ~32Tb per month Other details: 280Gb spool space (max 8 concurrent jobs) 158Gb MySQL database (12 months retention) To say the least, this is rather disappointing as a Linux fan. Does anyone have an explanation or remediation for this? thanks! Stephen -- Stephen Thompson Berkeley Seismological Laboratory st...@se... 215 McCone Hall # 4760 404.538.7077 (phone) University of California, Berkeley 510.643.5811 (fax) Berkeley, CA 94720-4760 |