> From: Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it
>
>
> Hello with dd on FreeBSD i can allocate an infinite block size bs=whatever
> I want. On NetBSD dd does not work with bs greater than 60000000 while
> I'd need soemthing like 10^8 to intensively test my hardware. There is a
> way to go over this limit ? some sysctl variable to set ??


They probably have a different default rlimit. If you are using
csh, try typing :

	% unlimit datasize

first. In sh, try:

	$ ulimit -d 1048576

It looks like it's time to up the defaults...

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