Re: [Dump-devel] Multiple slaves stepping on each other

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

Hi Phillip,

On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:57:16AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I have managed to come up with a test patch to have the slaves use
> SIGUSR1 to signal the next slave to start the read phase, and
> continue to use SIGUSR2 to start the write phase.  This has resulted
> in double the throughput in my initial test, taking the time it
> takes to dump ( to /dev/zero ) a 6.9/22gb fs with 386988 inodes from
> 6 minutes 15 seconds to 3 minutes 3 seconds.
[...]

I've commited your patch in CVS.

This was done post-0.4b44, so it will take a while before going
out in a "stable" release, so we should have plenty of time to
test if something broke.

Thanks!

Stelian.

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