Drive Imaging with dd

[Kareem Shehata]

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 11:47, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Have you looked at top while running dd with gzip?  Might be CPU
> limited.
> 
> Lennart Sorensen

With gzip set anywhere between -2 and -7 I seem to get around 15-25%
idle time, which seems to indicate that there's enough processor time. 
It does bounce around a lot though, anywhere between 97% to 60% use for
gzip.

Kareem

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