Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!hela!hela.iti.org!scs From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) Subject: Re: Performance of Dump Message-ID: Sender: usenet@iti.org (Hela News Manager) Organization: Industrial Technology Institute References: <26030@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 15:23:18 GMT flur@eecom.gatech.edu (Peter W. Flur) writes: >I am using an exabyte attached to a Sun for dumps of several different >types of machines on our network including Suns, NeXT's, Dec's, and HP >workstations. >Can anyone offer a reason why these other machines are significantly slower >than the suns, and more importantly, can someone offer a solution to speed >them up? Several reasons. First, dumps across a network are going to have more overhead than direct attach. So the odds are real good that any bottleneck anywhere will hurt you big time. Second, the quality of implementation of dump varies wildly from system to system. At one time there was a quite quick one available for anon ftp, but I've not been able to find it recently. -- "Our informal mission is to improve the love life of operators worldwide." Peter Behrendt, president of Exabyte. Quoted in Digital Review, Feb 4, 1991.