On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:50:52PM +0200, Jozsi Avadkan wrote: Hi,
> 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! :\ you could use some creative shellscripting (probably in addition to idprio): dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k | ( dd bs=1024k count=10; sleep 3 ) | dd bs=1024k of=/dev/somewhere This pauses for 3 seconds for every 10MB written. Try some variations of bs, count and sleep, until you find an acceptable compromise between speed and imposed load. Regards Thomas _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
