On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 11:47, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

Have you looked at top while running dd with gzip? Might be CPU limited.

Lennart Sorensen

With gzip set anywhere between -2 and -7 I seem to get around 15-25% idle time, which seems to indicate that there's enough processor time. It does bounce around a lot though, anywhere between 97% to 60% use for gzip. Kareem -- /********************************************************************* kareem-d+8TeBu5bOew5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org - Kareem Shehata - 416-676-6611 -------------------------------------------------------------------- The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947) ********************************************************************/ -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml