Bug#833630: scalpel: performance decreases with running time

2016-08-07 Thread ydirson
Another test, more closely monitored, with the same set of 100 1024-bytes patterns, carving a 1TB SATA drive, with defines updated to avoid buffer overflows: +--- scalpel-1.60.orig/scalpel.h scalpel-1.60/scalpel.h +@@ -143,11 +143,10 @@ void setProgramName(char *s); + + + #define SCALPEL_B

Bug#833630: scalpel: performance decreases with running time

2016-08-07 Thread ydirson
Package: scalpel Version: 1.60-1 Severity: important Running scalpel on a 1TB drive with 100 patterns of 1024 bytes each: * ETA some time after starting stabilized around 11h (as I recall it, but this number is superfluous, the next ones talk loud enough) * after 11h run it has done 63% and the