Steven Alligood wrote:
What crazy scenario is causing you to pound your system so hard? I mean, really, cat /dev/zero is not an "in the wild" type of program, nor one that you are likely to run in a production environment, unless you have untrusted customers on the box, in which case you will never be able to guarantee that their dumb actions don't cause you issues.
Bzzzzt. If I didn't have a real-world scenario, I wouldn't be asking the question. cat /dev/zero does a great job of approximating what is happening in production. We move lots of data, and we have big disks.
If you want to know more, send me your resume. :) --Dave /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
