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Date:      Sat, 7 Dec 1996 21:19:54 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Cc:        croot@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de (Werner Griessl)
Subject:   Re: rdump slow
Message-ID:  <199612072019.VAA22287@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199612041026.KAA00900@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de> from Werner Griessl at "Dec 4, 96 10:26:09 am"

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As Werner Griessl wrote:

> rdump in current is very slow, should be ~5 times faster :
> 
> Wed Dec 4 09:57:01 1996 start btp1da:system_save to btp1x5:/dev/nrmt0h
> Wed Dec 4 09:57:01 1996 rewinding tape
> Wed Dec 4 09:57:07 1996 #1 rdump  /       ... 

>   DUMP: DUMP: 21409 tape blocks on 1 volumes(s)
> 
>   DUMP: finished in 430 seconds, throughput 49 KBytes/sec
>                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ !!!!!

I can't confirm this.  What's your blocksize?  What system is the
remote TCP peer?  Is the tape streaming?

That's what i get here:

j@uriah 1523% /sbin/dump 0Bbf 5000000 32 localhost:/dev/rst0 /
...
  DUMP: DUMP: 20154 tape blocks on 1 volumes(s)
  DUMP: finished in 53 seconds, throughput 380 KBytes/sec
...
j@uriah 1524% /sbin/dump 0Bbf 5000000 32 /dev/rst0 /
...
  DUMP: DUMP: 20154 tape blocks on 1 volumes(s)
  DUMP: finished in 53 seconds, throughput 380 KBytes/sec

So of course, it's been the loopback device, but as long as the
Ethernet card in question can handle 380 KB/s (which is not very
much), the limiting factor is obviously the tape here.  (It's a
QIC-2.5GB w/ compression in a Tandberg drive.  The 380 KB/s is a
normal rate there.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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