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From: Random Junk <jsd@gamespot.com>
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Subject: incredibly slow dumps
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we have an exabyte 8500 tape drive connected to a SGI box running IRIX
6.2.  i can dump to it from my freebsd boxes, but the performance is
terrible - around 18k/sec.  this is almost unusable.  i just tried
dumping from a solaris (intel) box and it got 160k/second!  all three
boxes (freebsd, solaris, irix) are on the same ethernet segment, so it
can't be a network latency problem.  i've tried various blocksizes and
it's the same story no matter what - 18k/sec.

any ideas?

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