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. -- Simon Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
