Peter Jay Salzman writes: > catting /dev/zero, piping to bzip2 and redirecting to /dev/null might to > the trick. bzip2 at the highest compression is prolly not as fast as > disk I/O. buffers grow, memory gets taken up, swap gets used. Somehow, I doubt that'd work - that'd be a rather stupid buffering implementation, IMO. But I'm too lazy to test it :) -Micah