DD /dev/zero to /dev/null fun!

[Rich43]

This command is cool.. it gets a bunch of zeros from /dev/zero and discards them to /dev/null...

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=900000
1647696600000 bytes (1.6 TB) copied, 125.442 s, 13.1 GB/s

I get 13GB/s!!

 

[Rich43]

john@john ~ $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=900000
146806235+0 records in
146806234+0 records out
132125610600000 bytes (132 TB) copied, 6822.07 s, 19.4 GB/s

You left it going for ages haha...

I tried it on my websites server and I got:

root@nonobloodyno:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=900000
330224+0 records in
330223+0 records out
297200700000 bytes (297 GB) copied, 25.2935 s, 11.8 GB/s

root@nonobloodyno:~#

Swanster appears to be winning so far...