On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Campbell, Lance <lance@uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Scott,
> The server is a Dell PowerEdge 2900 II with the standard Perc 6/I SAS
> controller with 256 MB cache.

It's probably not gonna win any awards, but it's not too terrible.

What does vmstat 1 say during your backups / normal operation? The
last four or five columns have the most useful data for
troubleshooting.

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