From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jan 14 8:50:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10E9837B405 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 08:50:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2DF343F5B for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 08:50:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0EGo5NS062488 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 08:50:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0EGo5L5062487; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 08:50:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 08:50:05 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200301141650.h0EGo5L5062487@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" Subject: Re: ports/47047: New port: misc/pipebench Reply-To: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/47047; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" To: "Michael L.Hostbaek" 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