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Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

From	Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Speed Problem Copying Files
Date	2019-05-14 22:10 +0200
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On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 12:11:17PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
>On 5/14/19 4:23 AM, Michael Stone wrote:
>>On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 10:48:31PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
>>>2019-05-09 22:00:27 root@po /mnt/scratch
>>># time dd if=/dev/urandom of=foo bs=1M count=1K conv=fsync
>>
>>don't bother doing this, urandom will be the bottleneck and it will 
>>just confuse things
>
>That was intended more as a litmus test, rather than a benchmark.  I 
>chose /dev/urandom, rather than /dev/zero, to preclude the possibility 
>of caches or compression.

Just use /dev/zero, caching is exactly as relevant to either, and 
accidently compressing a disk isn't a likely scenario.

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  Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-05-09 11:20 +0200
    Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Lothar Schilling <ls@proasyl.de> - 2019-05-09 11:50 +0200
      Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Kevin DAGNEAUX <kevin.dagneaux@fiitelcom.fr> - 2019-05-09 12:00 +0200
        Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Lothar Schilling <ls@proasyl.de> - 2019-05-09 12:30 +0200
          Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2019-05-09 13:30 +0200
            Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Lothar Schilling <ls@proasyl.de> - 2019-05-09 14:50 +0200
              Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2019-05-09 16:00 +0200
              Re: Speed Problem Copying Files "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-05-09 17:20 +0200
      Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-05-09 12:30 +0200
        Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-05-09 13:00 +0200
          Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Lothar Schilling <ls@proasyl.de> - 2019-05-09 13:20 +0200
            Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Keith Christian <keith1christian@gmail.com> - 2019-05-09 13:30 +0200
              Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Lothar Schilling <ls@proasyl.de> - 2019-05-09 14:50 +0200
  Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-05-09 16:20 +0200
    Re: Speed Problem Copying Files "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2019-05-09 16:30 +0200
      Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-05-09 17:00 +0200
      Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-05-09 17:00 +0200
  Re: Speed Problem Copying Files David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-05-10 07:50 +0200
    Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Lothar Schilling <ls@proasyl.de> - 2019-05-10 11:00 +0200
      Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Lothar Schilling <ls@proasyl.de> - 2019-05-13 10:40 +0200
        Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Lothar Schilling <ls@proasyl.de> - 2019-05-13 11:00 +0200
          Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2019-05-13 11:20 +0200
          Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-05-13 11:40 +0200
          Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-05-14 13:40 +0200
        Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2019-05-13 11:00 +0200
        Re: Speed Problem Copying Files David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-05-14 02:30 +0200
          Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Lothar Schilling <ls@proasyl.de> - 2019-05-14 09:40 +0200
            Re: Speed Problem Copying Files David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-05-14 18:30 +0200
    Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-05-14 13:30 +0200
      Re: Speed Problem Copying Files David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-05-14 21:20 +0200
        Re: Speed Problem Copying Files Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-05-14 22:10 +0200

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