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Date:      Mon, 9 Dec 1996 11:03:10 +0100 (CET)
From:      Werner Griessl <croot@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rdump slow solved
Message-ID:  <199612091003.LAA16976@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de>
In-Reply-To: <199612090908.KAA22223@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Dec 9, 96 10:08:44 am"

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> As Werner Griessl wrote:
> 
> > > >   DUMP: finished in 430 seconds, throughput 49 KBytes/sec
> > > >                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ !!!!!
> > > 
> > > I can't confirm this.  What's your blocksize?  What system is the
> > > remote TCP peer?  Is the tape streaming?
> > > 
> > 
> > Blocksize is the default (10), remote system is a DEC-alpha 3000/600,
> > tape is a HP-DAT 35480 with local transfer-rate ~250 kb/sec .
> 
> Do you get the same slow througput when using rsh/dd for the tape?
> What does GNUtar's ``-f remote:/dev/ice'' yield?  Does increasing the
> blocksize e.g. to 32 improve anything?
> 
> Which throughput would you get to /dev/null on the remote machine?
> Questions, questions, questions.
> 

Thanks for the hints, Joerg !
Changing the blocksize to 32 was the solution .
Have now with "rdump 0uBbf 1000000 32 ....":
DUMP: finished in 79 seconds, throughput 283 KBytes/sec
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Werner

> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
> 




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