Linux, gobs of RAM, RAID and performance suckage...

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Thursday 30 November 2006 11:59 am, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Before yesterday we were noticing lots of NFS drop-outs on the clients
> (300+ of them) and we correllated this pretty much to the backups
> (amanda).  The theory was that local disk I/O was beating out
> nfs-client requests.

I'm not sure the topology of your SAN, but can you connect another machine to 
the SAN with read-only access to those filesystems to do backups without 
involving the NFS server at all?
-N