Re: Interesting speed benchmarks


Peter Jeremy writes:

> > $DUMP_LEVEL -D $DUMPDATES_FILE -Lau -f
> >
> > gets me 2 +/- 0.2 mbytes/sec.
> > Is this a reasonable value? (I.e. is dump the limiting
> > factor?) Do I need to reconfigure something, or is my hardware just
> > lame?

I presume you are dumping an internal SCSI disk onto a USB disk. Dump
is slow but shouldn't be that slow. Doing a dump of root, I get
10MB/s on one system and 15MB/s on another. Even my P-120 firewall
gets 2.7MB/s and it is actually CPU limited, not disk limited. What
do you get if you do the dump to /dev/null?

huff@>>dump 0 -D /tmp/DF -Lau -f /dev/null /usr >& /tmp/null_dump
huff@>>cat /tmp/null_dump
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Jan 29 10:26:38 2007
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/da1s1d (/usr) to /dev/null
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 27192344 tape blocks.
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
DUMP: 0.75% done, finished in 11:01 at Mon Jan 29 21:33:18 2007
DUMP: 3.10% done, finished in 5:12 at Mon Jan 29 15:49:28 2007
DUMP: 5.74% done, finished in 4:06 at Mon Jan 29 14:48:31 2007

etc.

DUMP: 95.56% done, finished in 0:10 at Mon Jan 29 14:12:07 2007
DUMP: 97.56% done, finished in 0:05 at Mon Jan 29 14:12:37 2007
DUMP: 99.22% done, finished in 0:01 at Mon Jan 29 14:13:52 2007
DUMP: 99.99% done, finished soon
DUMP: DUMP: 27485576 tape blocks on 1 volume
DUMP: finished in 13818 seconds, throughput 1989 KBytes/sec
DUMP: level 0 dump on Mon Jan 29 10:26:38 2007
DUMP: Closing /dev/null
DUMP: DUMP IS DONE

It would seem the USB connection is not the bottleneck. :-)
The last possibility would be a local misconfiguration that
limits the speed. Ideas for what that might be are appreciated,
But assuming it really is dump - what next?


Robert Huff


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