About your script changes, I like to make it portable, and I use the
following versions:
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)
dd (coreutils) 4.5.3
What shell and coreutils are you using?
Avoiding short counts is easy but avoiding C-style expressions is primitive
- count=100K
+ count=100000
- while (( i-- )); do
+ while (( i=`expr $i - 1` )); do
In your opinion are your changes more portable across a wide range of systems?
>
> When I'm using the script as seen in the patch, I'm getting problems with
> df (it's mostly very lazy, about 20s delay or more), the load is 4, doing
> an ls on some other directories is extremly slow. Mouse and keyboard are
> hanging some times.
> The write speed shown in xosview was between 1 and 15MB/s. Often the HD LED
> was on, but no data seemed to be put to the HD.
>
It has a hard time to read anything else, the slower the disk, the worse.
Suppose rmap undoes the fixes introduced in -rc6.
Have you tried -rc6 plain?
Regards
Michael
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