Hi,
I'd like to ask about a performance. I use linux as a guest os and vista home premium as a host. I noticed that dd on linux works very slowly. Simple copying files is fast. I don't know why there are performance problems with dd commands. Is there any any solution?
regards
Jack
dd command works very slowly
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TerryE
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Can you quantify this with any performance data?
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Re: dd command works very slowly
quite simple, dd reads and then writes one by one byte, this is the defaultarmuser wrote:I don't know why there are performance problems with dd commands.
specify dd if=<infile> of=<outfile> bs=<bytes>
bs=1M seems to work well inside vbox machines with virtual disks, in real life i use half of the HDD hardware cache size