On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 01:44:00AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: Hi,
> > > How can I slow down dd? > > > > 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. ... > > I must be missing something. > > Doesn't that "dd ... ; sleep" in the sub-shell need to be in a _loop_ of some > sort? You're absolutely right. I probably should get more sleep. Of course it needs to be in a loop, something like "( while dd bs=1024k count=10; do sleep 3; done )" should do the trick. Sorry for the confusion. 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"
