On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 06:35:49PM +0200, Maximilian Pichler wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 6:27 PM, Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.pl> wrote: > > On my Linux box: > > ? > > > cat HUGE | /usr/bin/time dd bs=1 count=1234944 | wc -c > > stdin might be something much faster than your disk, in which case the > relative cost of bs=1 increases.
So is this the problem with slow disk? > > cat HUGE | /usr/bin/time dd bs=1024 count=1206 | wc -c > > Doesn't work for prime numbers. ;) Maybe suggest to the teacher that she sticks to numbers divisible by 512? That is what haxorz do. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **
