dump runs at ~ 4 MB pr. second using Fedora Core 2 instead of the ~ 33 MB pr. second I am used to from previous distributions !
Kristian Elof Sørensen
elof at image.dk
Sun Sep 12 12:02:59 UTC 2004
Problem:
dump of an entire partition on one disk to a file on an EIDE disk on
another controller progresses at the slooow speed of approx. 4 MB pr.
second
Using the same kernel on the same machine but with a heavily
upgraded Redhat 7.3 instead of Fedora Core 2, dump progressed at a rate
of 16-33,6 MB pr. second depending on which disk was being dumped. Write
speed to the disk being written to is limited to 33,6 due to long EIDE
cables.
Details:
During dump with Fedora Core 2 the system load is between 2,2 and
3,2, the three dump threads are consuming 1-3% cpu and less than 2 MB of
memory.
During dump with Fedora Core 2 free reports that "buffers" is around
0,75 GB and "cached" around 0,65 GB during dump. Se below for snapshots.
System:
Fedora Core 2
2.6.8.1 kernel compiled for SMP
Dual Athlon
1,5 GB RAM
1,5 GB swap space
free:
before starting dump
bash-2.05b# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1555436 129140 1426296 0 4460 26456
-/+ buffers/cache: 98224 1457212
Swap: 1509352 92368 1416984
while dump is running (the numbers stays pretty much the same for
the entire run of dump)
bash-2.05b# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1555436 1547356 8080 0 735380 629692
-/+ buffers/cache: 182284 1373152
Swap: 1509352 120756 1388596
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