Amanda-Users

Re: tar's default block size & shoe-shinning

2006-06-19 10:33:44
Subject: Re: tar's default block size & shoe-shinning
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: Cyrille Bollu <Cyrille.Bollu AT fedasil DOT be>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:00:45 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 at 3:56pm, Cyrille Bollu wrote

ouch I just ran the test and the speed sank to about 6MB/s...

I guess I'm stretching another component...

What SCSI card do you have the drive hooked to? Is (are) your hard drive(s) on the same card and/or the same chain? You may want to to
'dd if=/dev/zero' to take the HDD out of the equation.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University