RE: NFS performance

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Chris Bipes wrote:

> Do you back up other servers across your network during the time this
> transfer is running?  I know we use VERITAS Backup Exec to backup remote
> servers across the LAN and it really ties up our bandwidth.

No other significant network activity is going on.

I just noticed that the batch job that does the copy spends most of its 
time in TIMW.  That makes me think there is something not quite right 
about the NFS configuration, but I can't imagine what that might be.

James Rich

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when you're done reading them :)
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