9fans - fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9fans@sirjofri.de>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] dd(1) takes very long
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 13:44:53 +0100 (GMT+01:00)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8473cc79-c0b7-40a9-8604-cdacdd154923@sirjofri.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <254FA221-AFDF-4D5F-9A54-C5D9DEC7E3B5@quintile.net>

01.03.2024 11:38:06 Steve simon <steve@quintile.net>:

> A larger block size as lucio says, and also try two dd's with a pipe between them,
> one reading and one writing. dd(1) is single threaded but you have two asynchronous physical devices.

You can probably even pipe it through some compressor, but I doubt you'll get much performance out of it in a case like this (local machine). I guess it's more useful for separate machines with slower network connections.

sirjofri

------------------------------------------
9fans: 9fans
Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T0fd6444acb9c7811-M08db6c6b992d9e5efc4ac1a6
Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

      reply	other threads:[~2024-03-01 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-01  8:24 Marco Feichtinger
2024-03-01  8:53 ` Aleksandar Kuktin
2024-03-01  9:08   ` Marco Feichtinger
2024-03-01  9:35     ` Aleksandar Kuktin
2024-03-01  9:39       ` Lucio De Re
2024-03-01 10:37         ` Steve simon
2024-03-01 12:44           ` sirjofri [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=8473cc79-c0b7-40a9-8604-cdacdd154923@sirjofri.de \
    --to=sirjofri+ml-9fans@sirjofri.de \
    --cc=9fans@9fans.net \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).