Hi,
> riker# dd if=riker-bin.068 of=/dev/null bs=1m count=1000
> 1000+0 records in
> 1000+0 records out
> 1048576000 bytes transferred in 4.869752 secs (215324315 bytes/sec)
I'm afraid that reading from file might give too good results since
you might be getting data from filesystem cache.
Ari S.