slow down dd - how?

[Jozsi Avadkan]

How can I slow down dd?

I don't want to slow down the pc, when generating a big file [~40
GByte].

Does ionice work properly?

Thank you for any help! :\

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[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Thursday 08 July 2010 10:51:15 Jozsi Avadkan wrote:
> How can I slow down dd?
>

> Does ionice work properly?

For me, ionice does *work*, but it is not always enough to keep things
"snappy".

If ionice is not enough for you, the "pv" utility works similarly to "dd", but
has support for a "speed limit".
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[Jozsi Avadkan]

http://zakalwe.fi/~shd/foss/pmr/

is there a pmr-like solution under debian, from the repositories?

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[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Friday 09 July 2010 05:10:48 Jozsi Avadkan wrote:
> http://zakalwe.fi/~shd/foss/pmr/
>
> is there a pmr-like solution under debian, from the repositories?

That page lists 3 "Other tools". 2 of those are packaged for Debian. Pipe
Viwer <http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml> is in the pv package
<http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pv.html>. mbuffer <http://www.maier-
komor.de/mbuffer.html> is in the mbuffer package
<http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mbuffer.html>.

I recommended pv yesterday.