Re: Checkpoint durations

Posted in 2008

Ian Goddard — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:10:23 +0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Neil Truby wrote: > "Ian Goddard" <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message > news:gLOdnTSQGug9JqzUnZ2dnUVZ8h2dnZ2d@pipex.net... > >> Maybe you should repeat that writing to /dev/null in order to check >> what proportion of this is read time. > > Yes, maybe. What I'd really like is someone to answer my original > questions about their expereince of checkpoint throughputs and dd times > ... ;-) But in regard to dd times you've already answered your question - it's piss-poor compared to small-iron. -- Ian Hotmail is for spammers. Real mail address is igoddard at nildram co uk