[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 25 March 2006 04:42, Mike Meyer wrote:
One thing: 1m is a bit small for modern systems. Or for not-so-modern
systems. Since nothing else is running, you might as well use all the
memory you've got, or as big as you can get a process to be. 128m or
more is perfectly reasonable.
It won't go any faster..
In a modern system the CPU is so much faster than the disk than anything above
about 16k would be enough.
I found 64k to be optimal (e.g, max performance) on most machines
I heard its faster if you use two dd's; i.e:
# dd if=/dev/ad0 bs=64k | dd of=/dev/ad1 bs=64k
allowing read and write to proceed in parallel.
Joe Koberg
joe at osoft dot us
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