On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
Exactly. The only way you can speed up the smaller dumps is the slow down the bigger ones (or throw more money at the problem), and no-one has given any reason why we should prioritise smaller dumps.
What about the original idea, to do the "current" dumps in a separate thread from the "history" dumps. With only one thread doing the "history" dumps they'd take a really long time, but at least the "current" dumps would finish in a reasonable amount of time.