Fwd: Abyssmal dump cache efficiency

[Oliver Fromme]

Peter Jeremy wrote:
 > I've found that you do get a worthwhile improvement in dump|restore
 > performance by introducing a large (10's of MB) fifo between them.
 > This helps reduce synchronisation between dump and restore (so that
 > dump can continue to read whilst restore is busy writing a batch of
 > small files and vice versa).  There's a suitable port but I can't
 > recall the name because I wrote my own.

There are several.  The most popular ones are probably
misc/team and misc/buffer.

However, I wrote my own, too.  :-)

Best regards
   Oliver

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