Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > If I understand correctly (I have 4GB ram): > > jkr@Panoramix:~/tmp$ dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=8k count=1000000 > 1000000+0 records in > 1000000+0 records out > 8192000000 bytes transferred in 304.085269 seconds (26939812 bytes/sec) > > Which looks suspicious: 26308 MB/sec??? Eh? That looks more like ~25.7 MB/sec, assuming 1MB = 1024*1024 bytes. -- Steve Wampler -- swampler@xxxxxxxx The gods that smiled on your birth are now laughing out loud. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly