Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de> writes:

>> dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img bs=1024k count=256
> 256+0 records in
> 256+0 records out
> 268435456 bytes transferred in 5.739 secs (46773907 bytes/sec)

How much memory do you have in this machine? 256MB isn't a very large
dataset.

/Johan