On 04/27/2012 08:35 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 
> Yes, cp is bad for high latency links as it has a
> 32KiB buffer which it serially reads to and writes from.
> 

Why this that, though?  At least for file-to-file copy, it could
certainly do much better with mmap() + write().

32K is so 1990.

        -hpa


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