[olug] Slow read speeds-SuSE

[Craig Wolf]

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!!
 
 
Craig Wolf
Linux Server Support
Data Backups Administrator
Desktop/Network Specialist
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