[olug] Slow read speeds-SuSE

[Kevin]

Do you have any concurrency issues? Are any other processes or backups
accessing the same drive spindles at the same time as your backups?

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 16:16, Craig Wolf <CJWolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:
> Ok, my backups from one of my linux servers takes 5 days to finish...my window is 36 hours, not working right.  Throughput of about 1.5GB/hour.
> So in my testing, copying a 158MB directory to the server takes about 1 Minute 5 seconds.  Copying same structure off the box takes almost 7 minutes.  Network switches show no issues/error.  iostat shows slow to no throughput at all on read.
>
> SO, the million dollar question is, what should I look at for fixing this??  Do I use hdparm?
>
> TIA!!
>
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> Craig Wolf
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