On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 18:58 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
dd has a default read size of 1 byte. Try bs=4192 or something similar.
OK, I gave it a shot and it actually slowed it down to 15 minutes,
compared to netcat which took 5 minutes!
It makes a /huge/ difference.
I'm guessing it might take
The scenario:
Server:
Ubuntu Breezy
Linux software RAID5
SATAII HDDs
Gigabit LAN
Client:
Knoppix 3.8.2 (Live) (booted with knoppix 2 for cli)
Acer Veriton 3500
P4, 256MB RAM, 20GB HDD
100Mbit LAN
I have an image of an NTFS
This one time, at band camp, Simon Wong wrote:
# time ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat client.img.gz | gunzip
/dev/hda1
time reports a real time of 6 mins 1.8s (including ssh password entry)!
There's still a slow down at the 1GB mark for about 12 seconds, then
full speed transfer is
On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 14:19 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
I was going to suggest using netcat, or disabling compression in SSH,
because you're sending over a gzipped image so you might have experienced
some slowdown (maybe the 50s difference between ssh and netcat) due to SSH
compression maybe
On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 13:07 +1000, Simon Wong wrote:
Since, this is now happening within a reasonable length of time here's
some more results:
1. Netcat + dd
nc serverip 5030 | gunzip | dd of=/dev/hda1
time gives real 5m52s.
So quite a bit slower than the redirect.
dd has a
