Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2003 agent performance

[John D. <dre...@gm...>]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Richard Amerman
<ram...@ro...> wrote:
> I'm having issues with the performance of the bacula agent, 5.0.3 32bit,
> on Win 2003 32bit installed cleanly in a Virtualbox VM with 4 procs and
> 3GB ram, with little in use.
>
> This machine uses very little cpu under normal load but when a bacula
> backup starts up the cpu usage climes to 89% but the bacula fd process is
> only a part of that, the rest is not accounted for, I'm wondering if it is
> the VSS system.
>
> It does not matter if the job is a full or diff job.
>
> This VM is hosted on a CentOS 5.5 64bit box with 2 x Quad Zeon and RAID 5.
>
> The Bacula server is running on the same CentOS box, also 5.0.3.
>
> Everything else is working great with the system, it is only the CPU
> usage. I'm trying to do an hourly diff so this CPU usage is making the
> server almost unusable for 5-15 minutes every hour.
>
>
> I'm just looking to see if anyone has seen anything like this and/or has
> any advice.
>

Is it acceptable to turn software compression off?

John