On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 at 8:22am, Michael Packer wrote

> The changes took it from 8+ hours to 4:45.... still would like to get it

What changes?

> down a bit more... I still have a problem with compsec (made a typo) so
> I reformatted it by hand.
> 
> Questions... 
> 
> would it be beneficial to break /sda5 down into different disks
> (I was looking at the sample disklist and saw you can do things like
> /sda5/x /sda5/x2 /sda5/x3 ... etc).   Currently it's creating 56 500mb
> chunks
>
> is it better not to create these chunks?

*snip*

> Run Time (hrs:min)         4:45
> Dump Time (hrs:min)        2:23       2:23       0:00

*snip*
> HOSTNAME   DISK L ORIG-KB    OUT-KB COMP%   MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
> ----------------- ------------ ------------
> localhost  sda2 0   878130   878144   --    4:29   3264.2   6:17 2327.0
> localhost  sda3 0     3830     3840   --    0:01   3818.4   0:04  927.2
> localhost  sda5 0 28012880 28012896   --  132:42   3518.4 125:34 3718.2

I'm assuming that the tape drive is on localhost?  If so, don't even 
bother with the holding disk -- it's only slowing you down (see how run 
time is roughly 2X dump time).  That should get your runs down to 
basically the dump time listed above.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University