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 default read size of 1 byte. Try bs=4192 or something similar. It makes a /huge/ difference. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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