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Date:      Wed, 12 Nov 1997 20:33:48 -0800 (PST)
From:      Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-connect.net>
To:        kingson@excite.com
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: cp is slow...
Message-ID:  <XFMail.971112203348.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
In-Reply-To: <346A081E.DBC2798E@excite.com>

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Hi Kingson Gunawan;  On 12-Nov-97 you wrote: 
>  I noticed that the cp (copy) command is extremely slow on my system
>  (-current).  On average 'cp' copy rate is somewhere around 100kB/sec,
>  while when I tried 'dd' (with bs=64k) the rate jumped to around
>  2-3MB/sec.  Even at this rate, it is nowhere close to the perfomance I'd
>  expect from the Fast UW SCSI system.  The test file size is 100MB.  The
>  copy is done using both 2 drives and 1 drive.
>  Is this to be expected? 

Dunno (but could guess :-) about cp, but copying with dd adds up to
4-6MB/Sec, on a single bus which is typical.
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Sincerely Yours, 

Simon Shapiro                                                 Atlas Telecom
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