Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 08:50:05 -0800 (PST) From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@corecode.ath.cx> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/47047: New port: misc/pipebench Message-ID: <200301141650.h0EGo5L5062487@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/47047; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@corecode.ath.cx> To: "Michael L.Hostbaek" <mich@freebsdcluster.org> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/47047: New port: misc/pipebench Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:45:36 +0100 --mfAkpX=.njr4JPWy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lately Michael L.Hostbaek told: > sed 's/^X//' >pipebench/pkg-descr << 'END-of-pipebench/pkg-descr' > XPipebench shows the current throughput and amount of data going through a > Xpipe. It can be used to show the progress of a large md5sum process: > Xcat bigfile | pipebench | md5sum. you are given this week's most useless use of cat award. save a process today! pipebench < bigfile | md5sum btw: this is horrible, sorry. piping a bigfile through the kernel just to see the progress is evil; better let the receiving process read the file itself (or even mmap() it) but i can imagine there are other usefull or useable situations for this program cheers simon -- /"\ http://corecode.ath.cx/#donate \ / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign / \ Against HTML Mail and News --mfAkpX=.njr4JPWy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+JD6zr5S+dk6z85oRAmMyAKCOQPi9h9JaohnRBs1ljs/YeJXobwCgoLfc MfGRrs9NG5c2IkEET5QJda0= =uhSl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mfAkpX=.njr4JPWy-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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