Quote Originally Posted by heymanj
Will try a large .iso to replicate timings.
Copied single Mandriva 2010.1 DVD ISO

$ ls -l *.iso
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jerry jerry 4654628864 2010-07-11 19:59 mandriva-linux-pwp-2010-spring-i586.iso
$ time cp mandriva-linux-pwp-2010-spring-i586.iso /mnt
0.67user 75.29system 10:55.16elapsed 11%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
9100040inputs+9091072outputs (1major+228minor)pagefaults 0swaps

sustained throughput appears to be ~7.1MB
definitely took 100% of one of my CPUs (dual P3 @ 1GHz) according to Xosview.

jerry