Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 02:32:18 +0200
From: Thomas f...@gothschlampen.com
Cc: FreeBSD Mailing list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: slow down dd - how?
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:50:52PM +0200, Jozsi Avadkan wrote:
Hi,
How can I slow down dd?
you could use some creative
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 01:44:00AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote:
How can I slow down dd?
you could use some creative shellscripting (probably in addition to idprio):
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k | ( dd bs=1024k count=10; sleep 3 ) | dd bs=1024k
of=/dev/somewhere
This pauses for 3
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 01:44:00AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote:
Hi,
How can I slow down dd?
you could use some creative shellscripting (probably in addition to idprio):
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k | ( dd bs=1024k count=10; sleep 3 ) | dd bs=1024k
of=/dev/somewhere
This pauses for 3
How can I slow down dd?
I don't want to slow down the pc, when generating a big file [~40
GByte].
Does ionice work properly?
Thank you for any help! :\
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On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:50:52PM +0200, Jozsi Avadkan wrote:
How can I slow down dd?
Play with the block size parameter (bs). Smaller block sizes means more
reads. The default is 512 bytes, which is very small.
I don't want to slow down the pc, when generating a big file [~40
GByte].
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:44:38PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:50:52PM +0200, Jozsi Avadkan wrote:
How can I slow down dd?
Play with the block size parameter (bs). Smaller block sizes means more
reads. The default is 512 bytes, which is very small.
I don't
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David Kelly wrote:
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:44:38PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:50:52PM +0200, Jozsi Avadkan wrote:
How can I slow down dd?
Play with the block size parameter (bs). Smaller block sizes means more
reads.
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:50:52PM +0200, Jozsi Avadkan wrote:
Hi,
How can I slow down dd?
I don't want to slow down the pc, when generating a big file [~40
GByte].
Does ionice work properly?
Thank you for any help! :\
you could use some creative shellscripting (probably in addition