Subject: Re: Slow crash dump performance
To: None <port-sparc64@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 04/03/2005 12:42:53
In article <20050402211622.GA21848@bcd.geek.com.au>,
	Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au> writes:
>> The dump also takes a lot longer than my Pentium IV needs to dump its
>> 2GB of main memory too an IDE disk.
> Page-at-a-time synchronous writes?

Dumping 1GB would require 131072 writes which shouldn't take half an hour
with a 10.000 RPM disk.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/