RE: Is there a source of moderately random data with good speed in Cygwin?

2013-02-27 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Andrey Repin wrote: I was need to pipe some bytes through application and watch it's reaction. But with /dev/urandom the stream speed is only about 40Mb/sec. Using /dev/zero, however, makes it 3 orders of magnitude faster (~35Gb/s), but for technical reasons, using monotonous sequence is

Re: Is there a source of moderately random data with good speed in Cygwin?

2013-02-27 Thread Alan Thompson
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Adam Dinwoodie adam.dinwoo...@metaswitch.com wrote: Andrey Repin wrote: I was need to pipe some bytes through application and watch it's reaction. But with /dev/urandom the stream speed is only about 40Mb/sec. Using /dev/zero, however, makes it 3 orders of

Re: Is there a source of moderately random data with good speed in Cygwin?

2013-02-27 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Adam Dinwoodie! I was need to pipe some bytes through application and watch it's reaction. But with /dev/urandom the stream speed is only about 40Mb/sec. Using /dev/zero, however, makes it 3 orders of magnitude faster (~35Gb/s), but for technical reasons, using monotonous sequence

RE: Is there a source of moderately random data with good speed in Cygwin?

2013-02-27 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Alan Thompson wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Adam Dinwoodie Adam.Dinwoodie@... wrote: Standard reminder: please don't quote email addresses. This is a publicly archived mailing list, and I'd prefer not to receive any more spam than I already do. See also