Dominik Smogór <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the problem with my system. Is my system badly misconfigured?
Could be. I don't observe similar behavior on my system (Debian stable, Linux kernel 2.4.27-2-686). # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100 skip=600 iflag=direct 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 3.16582 seconds, 33.1 MB/s # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100 skip=1200 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 2.9907 seconds, 35.1 MB/s Sometimes it runs faster with direct, sometimes not. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
