Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: hacknews Subject: dump(1) altered Message-ID: <4712@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 23:14:45 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4712 Posted: Sat Dec 1 23:14:45 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Dec-84 23:14:45 EST Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 8 We're now running (actually, this happened very late yesterday afternoon) a version of dump(1) that forks off an auxiliary process to do its tape writes. This was done in hopes of greater speed, through concurrent disk and tape operations. It may have speeded things up some; the effect was not spectacular. More to come. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry