Subject: Slow dump on sun3 machine (3/160)
To: None <port-sun3@netbsd.org>
From: None <rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu>
List: port-sun3
Date: 03/25/1999 09:33:37
I finally got a sun3 machine set up and running (a bit spartan though
with only 4M ram and a 240mb scsi drive).  But, when doing the initial
system dumps of root and usr, the dump seemed to be going inordinately
slow, like about one pass of 20 blocks every 10 seconds or so.  Should
it be that slow?  Is there a fix?  I had both NBSD 1.3 and 1.3.2 up
on the machine, and both acted the same way.  On sunos, dumps stream
at machine hardware speed, or essentially continuously.  Any insights
are appreciated.

Thanks

Bob Keys