This command sends 16,384 16KB blocks of null bytes, creating a file with a total size of 16,000 bytes × 16,384/1024 kilobytes = 256 kilobytes or 256MB. Write the time down. Then calculate the time of reading, sending the file to/dev/null
:time dd if=/home/tempo of=/dev/null bs=16k
Olexiy Tykhomyrov and Denis Tonkonog
Starting Share Files with NFS
Linux Journal, January 2002
This command sends 16,384 16KB blocks of null bytes, creating a file with a total size of 16,000 bytes × 16,384/1024 kilobytes = 256 kilobytes or 256MB.
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