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Date:      Thu, 25 Mar 1999 08:18:12 -0600
From:      Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com>
To:        questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Poor performance with /usr/sbin/rmt
Message-ID:  <19990325081812.B79811@luke.pmr.com>

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I am seeing incredibly poor performance when attempting to dump remotely
from one system to another (both are 3.1-stable as of about a week ago).
The command I am using is:

    dump -0ab 32 -f luke:/dev/rsa0

When doing this I get a performance of less than 50KBs.  This is to an
Exabyte 8505XL tape drive which is capable of at least 500KBs when not
compressing (though I am).  If I, instead, pipe it through rsh to dd
like this:

    dump -0ab 32 -f- / | rsh luke 'dd bs=32k of=/dev/rsa0

I get appx 500KBs (as expected).  Does anybody have any ideas on what's
going on here?  Should I simply give up on rdump and stick to the rsh
approach?

Thanks,
Bob

-- 
Bob Willcox             The man who follows the crowd will usually get no
bob@luke.pmr.com        further than the crowd.  The man who walks alone is
Austin, TX              likely to find himself in places no one has ever
                        been.            -- Alan Ashley-Pitt


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