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SubjectRe: Strange IDE performance change in 2.6.1-rc1 (again)
I wrote:

> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
> > 'cat' is probably doing a stat() on stdout and seeing it's connected
> > to /dev/null and not even bothering to do the write() call. I've seen
> > similar behavior in other GNU utilities.
>
> I can't see any special casing for /dev/null in cat's source, but I
> forgot to check dd with bigger block size. It's ok with bs=4096...

However with 2.4 dd performs fine even with bs=512.

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