On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:56:17 +0700 Eugene Grosbein wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 12:37:00PM -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > >Peter Jeremy wrote: > > >> I've found that you do get a worthwhile improvement in dump|restore > > >> performance by introducing a large (10's of MB) fifo between them. > > >> This helps reduce synchronisation between dump and restore (so that > > >> dump can continue to read whilst restore is busy writing a batch of > > >> small files and vice versa). There's a suitable port but I can't > > >> recall the name because I wrote my own. > > > > > >There are several. The most popular ones are probably > > >misc/team and misc/buffer. > > > > I can certainly vouch for that , too. I generally use "team 1m 32" (total > > of 32meg of buffer). Team seems to not want to buffer more than 1m per > > process and I think 32 is the max # of processes.
> Someone, please take a look at trivial patch for team's buffer size here: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/106806 > The maintainer timeout for the PR has occured long time ago. Committed, thanks for both your patches and patience. ;-) WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"