Re: [Bacula-users] Performance with latent networks

[mayak-cq <ma...@au...>]

On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 02:18 -0700, reaper wrote:

> if i understand you correctly, bacula is only using a 128k -- way too
> small? curious -- have you played with "Maximum Network Buffer Size" ?
> does this help?
> 
> Yes, that's correct, bacula can only scale window to 128k that's why
> throughput gets limited to 10Mbit/s. With ssh tunnel between client
> and sd it does not matter because ssh can scale window to 3MB and
> throughput is about 100-120Mbit/s. I've tried to set "Maximum Network
> Buffer Size" on client and sd to 8MB. No result unfortunatelly.


hey reaper,

i think that you should file a bug report -- that bacula doesn't use the
native window size (or at least have an option to do so) is a tad
strange. in the meantime, using a tunnel that uses a larger window size
is the clear solution.

cheers

m