On Thursday 08 July 2010 14:04:40 Frans Haarman wrote: > On 8 July 2010 18:52, Jozsi Avadkan <[email protected]> wrote: > > How can I slow down dd? > > > > I don't want to slow down the pc, when generating a big file [~40 > > GByte]. > > > > Does ionice work properly? > > > > Thank you for any help! :\ > > maybe dd bs=1 ?
I'm not sure how useful it would be but 1) don't use softdeps, 2) don't use the raw device, 3) nice the process to +20. 4) report back if it works... -- STeve Andre' Disease Control Warden Dept. of Political Science Michigan State University A day without Windows is like a day without a nuclear incident.
