Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 19:46:15 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changes in dd? Message-ID: <20000608194615.N9883@speedy.gsinet> In-Reply-To: <200006072108.RAA94211@misha.privatelabs.com>; from mi@privatelabs.com on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 05:08:44PM -0400 References: <200006072108.RAA94211@misha.privatelabs.com>
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On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 17:08 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>
> My command line is:
> ssh -o'Compression no' -e none -c blowfish <server> \
> dd ibs=1 count=<size> of=/dev/null < /kernel.GENERIC
Look at what you do here: You shuffle *many* tiny packets around
each of them being *one* byte long. This will result in a _very_
tight loop eating time without any making sense.
How about doing this with _one_ block of the size you want? I.e.
what stops you from swapping the count and bs parameters?
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