Re: Measure "cp" Speed?

[Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>]

2009/3/12 Zaki Akhmad <zakiakhmad@gmail.com>:
> 2009/3/12 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>:
>
>> 300000000 m/s
>
> Where this number come from? Isn't it the value will be vary depends
> on the medium we are making cp from and to? The speed of harddisk if
> we are copying on same harddisk, different harddisk, and so on if we
> copy with USB interface (USB 1.0, USB 2.0).
>
> I am asking, how we measure the speed of bytes transfered? With what
> tools? What command?
>

You can use the time command to benchmark cp. Just write a bash script
that checks the before and after times when copying a file of known
size.

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