How to speed up LTO3 transfer ?

From: przemolicc@poczta.fm
Date: Tue Aug 08 2006 - 09:10:35 EDT


Hello,

we are doing backups of our v880 (Solaris 9) + array 3310 on LTO3 connected to LVD Ultra3 SCSI card.
The SCSI card is put into 66MHz slot. What is strange is the transfer to the streamer:

/usr/sbin/ufsdump 0uf /dev/rmt/1cn /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s0
...
  DUMP: 91.76% done, finished in 0:35
  DUMP: 93.98% done, finished in 0:25
  DUMP: 95.45% done, finished in 0:19
  DUMP: 97.09% done, finished in 0:12
  DUMP: 99.41% done, finished in 0:02
  DUMP: 1122170430 blocks (547934.78MB) on 1 volume at 21636 KB/sec

Maximal, theoretical transfer rate is:
uncompressed 80 MB/sec
  compressed 160 MB/sec

I don't expect we get the theoretical transfers but close to that. Our 20 MB/s
is far from that. We have installed the latest patch for 'qus' and 'st/sd' drivers.

Can you advice me what can we do to speed it up ?

Regards
przemol
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