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? :)

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/



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