From bug-request at octave dot org Thu Sep 16 23:30:20 2004
Subject: Re: Buglet in whos?
From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dmitri at unm dot edu>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:29:32 -0600

John W. Eaton wrote:

> | 
> | (it took actually ~40 minutes for the error to appear).
> 
> Disks are slow...
> 

It probably has nothing to do with Octave, but it does bug me.
So the swap size was approx 3000 MB.
[dima at localhost dima]$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=test1 count=1 bs=1000M
1+0 records in
1+0 records out

real    0m44.913s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m4.923s

[dima at localhost dima]$ ls -lh test1
-rw-rw-r--  1 dima dima 1000M Sep 16 22:23 test1
[dima at localhost dima]$

(My swap stripped across two ide channels, but we will ignore that
for a moment.)

So there is a factor of 20 discrepancy here...

Oh well.

Regards,

Dmitri.



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