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 some experimenting to find an optimum.


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