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Date:      Wed, 01 Aug 2001 11:37:33 -0600
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DLT 4000 throughput and cstream 
Message-ID:  <200108011737.f71HbXI66655@aslan.scsiguy.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Aug 2001 08:48:52 PDT." <20010801084833.B57962-100000@wonky.feral.com> 

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>On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
>
>> >It does indeed look like this *might* be a dump issue- but it also could
>> >simply be that any single threaded action for dump(8) is going to make for
>> >lousy performance.
>>
>> Dump has lots of issues.  I once talked with John Polstra about fixing it.
>> The scheme we talked about would have increased dumps performance by ~10X.
>> Unfortunately the funding for that project (at my former employer) dried up.
>
>Was this was for implementing the async i/o stuff that Solaris used?

Async I/O, a small cache for data blocks, and a better pipeline.

--
Justin

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