Subject: Re: dump is slow over network and/or raidframe
To: Louis Guillaume <lguillaume@berklee.edu>
From: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/27/2006 09:45:12
Matthias Scheler writes:
> On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 11:11:50PM -0500, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> > Any idea what's going on here? Device and system info are below...
> 
> Can you run a network benchmark like "pkgsrc/net/ttcp", please?
> It might just be a problem with your network.

And run something like:

 dump -0eatf maat:/dev/null /

just to remove the remote tape from the equation.  One other thing to 
try is changing the blocksize on the dump... e.g.:

 dump -0eaut -b 256 -f maat:/dev/nrst0 /

or 

 dump -0eaut -b 128 -f maat:/dev/nrst0 /

Later...

Greg Oster