Bug#465122: dd uses a lot of memory
* Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> [2008-02-10 14:55]:
> Since dd is run with ibs= the full image size, quite a lot of ram is
> needed to run flash-kernel. I just had it die when running it from
> within d-i without swap mounted. I think that using a smaller input
> buffer size would be a generally good idea, it might even make
> flash-kernel perform better on systems with swap, since they won't
> need to swap out 3.4 mb of stuff.
Do you have a patch? :)
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Martin Michlmayr
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