dump(8) performance

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (May 31), Zaphod Beeblebrox said:
> On 5/31/06, Eugene M. Kim <freebsd.org at ab.ote.we.lv> wrote:
> >Dan Nelson wrote:
> >> Are you using the -C option to dump?  I would expact that to help
> >> more in the "dumping directories" step, but it might help later
> >> phases too.
> >
> >Yep, -C32.
> 
> I'm a pretty big fan of using team (ports/misc/team).  Team
> implements a ring buffer for the output of dump.  Is the -C argument
> an output buffer or a buffer at some other level of the process?

It's a read cache.

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	Dan Nelson
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