Re: [Dump-users] Slow dump

[Kenneth P. <sh...@se...>]

--On Thursday, December 09, 2004 2:54 PM +0100 Stelian Pop 
<st...@po...> wrote:

> What if you run the dump redirecting the output to a local file ?
> (this should tell if the slowdown is network related at all)
>
> What if you run the dump without QFA ?
> (QFA seems to induce slowdowns for at least another user recently)
>
> What if you run the dump without bzip2 -9 compression ?
> (if your server is not really very fast, the bottleneck may be
> CPU not network related)

Very interesting. With QFA and -j9 to local files I got about 3-4 MBps. 
Turning off those options and going back to the remote file I'm getting 8-9 
MBps. (Woot!) I'm now trying to isolate which of those is the problem.