On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Edgar Fuß wrote:What's the fastest type of device NetBSD can dump to? On sd, it dumps about 3MB/s, making 4GB take ~20 minutes. Some sort of flash device would be nice.Probably not really answering the question, but: NetBSD 5.0/i386's release announcement mentions sparse kernel core dumps. I wonder if that may help if you're on !i386...
AFAIK, sparse dumps only work on i386. They are not even available on x86_64/amd64 yet. :(
BTW, I have a machine with 6GB, and although it does take a long time to dump, it is well under 20 minutes. (Of course, then savecore runs at reboot and makes another copy of those 6GB...).
Wondering: would it make sense for savecore to run asynchronously,rather than waiting for it to complete before continuing with the rest of system startup?
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