On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 06:58:50PM +0000, Martijn van Buul wrote:
> 
> How come sd0d is so slow sometimes?

When you dd to and from the block device node, every I/O forces allocation
in the metadata cache.  Why would you expect that to be a good thing?

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 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com

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 abandoned or transcended, there is no problem."		- Noam Chomsky