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To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Subject: Re: Dump very slow in 4.3-RELEASE?
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At 07:28 AM 4/25/01 -0700, Nick Sayer wrote:
>Amanda has begun timing out one of my slower clients. I have tracked this
>down and it appears to be the fact that generating the estimates takes
>much, much longer now than it used to.

My guess is because of the dump changes, but just curious if it might be 
related to the write caching changes as well ? What does
sysctl -a | grep ata
show  ?
if
hw.ata.wc: 0
try seeing if
setting it to "1" in /boot/loader.conf makes a difference

         ---Mike


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