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Alan Somers writes:

> However, these servers also have about 10,000 threads
> apiece, so textdumps are also slow.  They take tens of minutes.
> I have dual console setup: both serial and video.  It seems to me that
> the speed of the textdump might be limited by the video system.

I would expect them to be limited by the serial console speed before
the video system speed ?

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