On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 01:44:00AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote:
Hi,
> > > How can I slow down dd?
> >
> > you could use some creative shellscripting (probably in addition to idprio):
> >
> > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k | ( dd bs=1024k count=10; sleep 3 ) | dd bs=1024k
> > of=/dev/somewhere
> >
> > T
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 01:44:00AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> >
> > > How can I slow down dd?
> >
> > you could use some creative shellscripting (probably in addition to idprio):
> >
> > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k | ( dd bs=1024k count=10; sleep 3 ) | dd bs=1024k
> > of=/dev/somewhere
> >
> > Thi
> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 02:32:18 +0200
> From: Thomas
> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing list
> Subject: Re: slow down dd - how?
>
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:50:52PM +0200, Jozsi Avadkan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > How can I slow down dd?
> >
>
> you could use some
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:50:52PM +0200, Jozsi Avadkan wrote:
Hi,
> How can I slow down dd?
>
> I don't want to slow down the pc, when generating a big file [~40
> GByte].
>
> Does ionice work properly?
>
> Thank you for any help! :\
you could use some creative shellscripting (probably in ad
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David Kelly wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:44:38PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:50:52PM +0200, Jozsi Avadkan wrote:
>>> How can I slow down dd?
>> Play with the block size parameter (bs). Smaller block sizes means more
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:44:38PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:50:52PM +0200, Jozsi Avadkan wrote:
> > How can I slow down dd?
>
> Play with the block size parameter (bs). Smaller block sizes means more
> reads. The default is 512 bytes, which is very small.
>
> > I d
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:50:52PM +0200, Jozsi Avadkan wrote:
> How can I slow down dd?
Play with the block size parameter (bs). Smaller block sizes means more
reads. The default is 512 bytes, which is very small.
> I don't want to slow down the pc, when generating a big file [~40
> GByte].
>
How can I slow down dd?
I don't want to slow down the pc, when generating a big file [~40
GByte].
Does ionice work properly?
Thank you for any help! :\
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