Re: dump problems

2007-09-10 Thread Tim Kientzle
Danny Braniss wrote: [dump] has been around since the beginin of time, or at least since Unix V6 :-), and it has been hacked ever since. but now that most of you never heard of 9track tapes, etc, I was wondering if there is a point in hacking at it again. pros: dump/restore has never failed me

Re: dump problems

2007-09-10 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 10.09.2007 um 10:14 schrieb Danny Braniss: so here are some questions: - is the readers/writer split realy needed now? my guess it was put in in the old days to get tapes streaming - which is btw, what's not working. Before you put a lot of efforts into this:

Re: dump problems

2007-09-10 Thread Danny Braniss
> > > > > > the only indication I can see, is that one of the dump procs. is > > > waiting on > > > sbwait, and probably it's some deadlock, which is similar to what I > > > keep > > > seeing here, i'll try now with SCHED_ULE to see if it make a > > > difference. > > > > > > I'm running SCHED_UL