Re: kern/39298: dd brings system to knees

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/39298; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: jakllsch%siwenna.kollasch.net@localhost, gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/39298: dd brings system to knees
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:01:45 +0000

 On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 01:35:01PM +0000, 
jakllsch%siwenna.kollasch.net@localhost wrote:
  > >How-To-Repeat:
  > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=100m count=1000
                                    ^^^^
 
 How much is that relative to your RAM size? You're probably just
 flushing memory.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost