On 2002-Jul-22 12:43:18 -0700, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Here are the preliminary results when I test this dumping /usr
>to /dev/null:
>
> DUMP: finished in 140 seconds, throughput 6413 KBytes/sec (8 MB cache)
> DUMP: finished in 144 seconds, throughput 6235 KBytes/sec (4 MB cac
:
:Matthew Dillon wrote:
:> The filesystem wasn't idle and you didn't sync, so of course dump
:> screwed up! It would probably screw up on a FreeBSD box too.
:
:What's not idle? The file system is mounted, but there are no writes
:to it during the dump. This and other tests run fine i
Matthew Dillon wrote:
> The filesystem wasn't idle and you didn't sync, so of course dump
> screwed up! It would probably screw up on a FreeBSD box too.
What's not idle? The file system is mounted, but there are no writes
to it during the dump. This and other tests run fine in Freebsd
Hi guys. I've been following this thread and it occured to me
that it might be possible to write a very quick cache if we
ignored shareability between forked dumps.
I've done so. It actually does appear to make a considerable
difference even with a tiny (4MB default) cache