On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 at 8:22am, Michael Packer wrote > The changes took it from 8+ hours to 4:45.... still would like to get it
What changes? > down a bit more... I still have a problem with compsec (made a typo) so > I reformatted it by hand. > > Questions... > > would it be beneficial to break /sda5 down into different disks > (I was looking at the sample disklist and saw you can do things like > /sda5/x /sda5/x2 /sda5/x3 ... etc). Currently it's creating 56 500mb > chunks > > is it better not to create these chunks? *snip* > Run Time (hrs:min) 4:45 > Dump Time (hrs:min) 2:23 2:23 0:00 *snip* > HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s > ----------------- ------------ ------------ > localhost sda2 0 878130 878144 -- 4:29 3264.2 6:17 2327.0 > localhost sda3 0 3830 3840 -- 0:01 3818.4 0:04 927.2 > localhost sda5 0 28012880 28012896 -- 132:42 3518.4 125:34 3718.2 I'm assuming that the tape drive is on localhost? If so, don't even bother with the holding disk -- it's only slowing you down (see how run time is roughly 2X dump time). That should get your runs down to basically the dump time listed above. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
