Package: coreutils Version: 5.2.1-2 Severity: grave See output below. It does not make much sense. There seems to be a plan behind that because the number of transfered bytes is increasing on multiple retries. I guess there are some IPC problems, because it works fine with if=file.
$ cat /mnt/c/pagefile.sys | dd bs=1M count=200 | wc -c 80+120 records in 80+120 records out 88047616 bytes transferred in 0.616934 seconds (142718023 bytes/sec) 88047616 $ cat /mnt/c/pagefile.sys | dd bs=1M count=200 | wc -c 77+123 records in 77+123 records out 89530368 bytes transferred in 0.509001 seconds (175894305 bytes/sec) 89530368 $ cat /mnt/c/pagefile.sys | dd bs=1M count=200 | wc -c 82+118 records in 82+118 records out 91660288 bytes transferred in 0.558421 seconds (164141893 bytes/sec) 91660288 $ cat /mnt/c/pagefile.sys | dd bs=1M count=200 | wc -c 84+116 records in 84+116 records out 94158848 bytes transferred in 0.607092 seconds (155098128 bytes/sec) 94158848 $ cat /mnt/c/pagefile.sys | dd bs=1048576 count=200 | wc -c 89+111 records in 89+111 records out 95707136 bytes transferred in 0.639301 seconds (149705895 bytes/sec) 95707136 $ dd if=/mnt/c/pagefile.sys bs=1048576 count=200 | wc -c 209715200 200+0 records in 200+0 records out 209715200 bytes transferred in 7.358449 seconds (28499919 bytes/sec) $ cat /mnt/c/pagefile.sys | perl -e 'for(0..199) { my $buf; read(STDIN, $buf, 1048576); print $buf}' | wc -c 209715200 -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.4 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.29-1.0.1 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.3.5-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an coreutils recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]