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Date:      Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:39:27 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers.102a7e@mired.org>, vd@freebsd.org, Khaled Hussain <khaled@ipbill.com>, Dirk GOUDERS <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-ge.de>
Subject:   Re: cloning a FreeBSD HDD
Message-ID:  <200603281139.29588.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <17444.13967.998120.314837@bhuda.mired.org>
References:  <HCEOIFALKKLBLJPENPNOMEMNCAAA.khaled@ipbill.com> <20060324174235.GA58111@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> <17444.13967.998120.314837@bhuda.mired.org>

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On Saturday 25 March 2006 04:42, Mike Meyer wrote:
> One thing: 1m is a bit small for modern systems. Or for not-so-modern
> systems. Since nothing else is running, you might as well use all the
> memory you've got, or as big as you can get a process to be. 128m or
> more is perfectly reasonable.

It won't go any faster..

In a modern system the CPU is so much faster than the disk than anything ab=
ove=20
about 16k would be enough.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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