On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
Hard drives are pretty cheap, installing a second drive to take better advantage of a dual-CPU system wouldn't be too difficult.
Installing it wouldn't be difficult. Justifying the expenditure to my wife while our net worth is negative and we're making less than 150% of the poverty level in income, would be.
But enough about me. That wasn't my point, anyway. The point was, I don't know if the current process is CPU-bound or I/O-bound. There's certainly not enough information available at the svn to determine this. I tend to think the process *is* I/O-bound simply because I don't see anything being done (to create the bz2 history dump) that is CPU-intensive, other than bzipping and bunzipping, and my back of the envelope is that this should take about 3 or 4 days (on one of my crappy several-year-old processors), not 6 weeks. On the other hand, I assume if this *was* the problem that enough extra disks would have been added by now to mitigate it.