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Geek humor: from the OpenBSD mailing list

Original post:

OpenBSD 3.8:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd0c bs=1024k

6MB/s

Linux 2.4:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024k

53MB/S

Any clue about the difference? Of course I’m also interested in different ways to do this but the difference is what puzzles me.

And one of the replies:

They have a superior /dev/zero
:D

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One Response to “Geek humor: from the OpenBSD mailing list”

  1. sean langford says:
    December 16, 2005 at 4:40

    yeah just don’t try to benchmark your own system

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