On 2/21/07, Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
