curl-speedtest icon indicating copy to clipboard operation
curl-speedtest copied to clipboard

Writing test file to /dev/null, uploading from DD output

Open JayGoldberg opened this issue 7 years ago • 0 comments

Low resource IoT devices don't have the storage to keep a 100mb file. We can write those to /dev/null.

For upload, instead of uploading 100mb from disk, we can launch dd and pipe that output into a FIFO and read from that with curl.

Also, these devices don't do well under frequent writes, the storage is not meant to be constantly rewritten, it has finite life.

JayGoldberg avatar May 10 '17 16:05 JayGoldberg