no problem, i will post the stats here.

sure, once its done would you mind sharing your dedupe stats with us ?

hmm ok, that makes sense, ill have to look at what the CPU is currently at. CPU avg on the DM is 16%

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daverfw

Hi,

the dedupe scanning is specifically designed to not impact perfomance - so if it see's a certain CPU utilization it will back off and run a slower

so I dont think you have a problem

I haven't read too much about the new de-dupe feature yet, so I'm curious how it works.
Even though it hasn't finished the scan, is it aleady saving space and deduping? Or does it have to scan the entire filesystem before it makes any changes?
Do you have compression turned on as well?

It scans first then de-dupes, as for compression i dont see an option where i tell it what to do. unless I am missing something. here are the stats

Files scanned: 12,300,843
Files deduped: 5,152,016
original Data size: 7,211,792 MB
space saved 1,949,000 MB

both compression and single-instancing is turned on by default

you can turn off single-instancing via a param, but not compression

are you sure ?

from what I'm hearing from our experts it is deduplicating and saving space as it scans the file system file-by-file.

thats 27% - not too bad

my I ask what kind of data is in that file system (avg. file size seems to be around 600kB) ?

it ran again monday, and it finished on monday, so it looks like once you do an initial scan, it only scans the new content.