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Date:      Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:53:07 +0700 (ICT)
From:      Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
To:        ml@netfence.it
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: umass performance
Message-ID:  <200903171053.n2HAr7DF018080@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
In-Reply-To: <49BF7F56.4080107@netfence.it> (message from Andrea Venturoli on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:45:42 %2B0100)
References:  <49BF7F56.4080107@netfence.it>

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> I'm using dd to clone an 8GB USB memory into an identical one.
> 
> 
> 
> # dd if=/dev/da2 of=/dev/da1
> load: 0.01  cmd: dd 12026 [physwr] 0.00u 0.01s 0% 904k
> 396+0 records in
> 395+0 records out
> 202240 bytes transferred in 1.453741 secs (139117 bytes/sec)
> 15925248+0 records in
> 15925248+0 records out
> 8153726976 bytes transferred in 31722.194052 secs (257035 bytes/sec)
> 
> 
> As you can see the process is VERY slow, taking nearly 9 hours.
> Anything to try?

Maybe it has something to do with the block size?

Olivier 



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