Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

[Robert G. Hays]

Richard Fish wrote:
<Snip!>
# time dd if=/dev/hda bs=64k count=16000
(time the reading of 1G of data from hda).
Feel free to adjust count to your liking...although it should be at
least twice memory.  At 20M/sec you are looking at about 1G/min for reading.
-Richard
(And how many -- or rather how few! -- of us remember when 1GB/min was 
Science *Fantasy* for our computers ?!?

rgh.
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