swapless in Toronto

[James Knott]

David J Patrick wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
>>
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=512
>>  
>>
> djp at otter:~ $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=512
> Password:
> 512+0 records in
> 512+0 records out
> 536870912 bytes transferred in 35.092725 seconds (15298638 bytes/sec)
> 
> can you tell me what happened here ? (I trust you, Lennart, so I just 
> went and did it) but I'd like to know.
> (and how come it took you a whole seven minutes to come up with this ? 
> were you in the can ?)

He's not as fast as you think he is.  According to the mail headers, it 
took him eight minutes to send the reply, not seven.  ;-)
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