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1. Large 1 MB I/O, all reads and write to file systems 1MB (can use setvbuf to do this with out coding) e.g a awk programme doing 8K I/O to read 2GB file took 16 min, a perl programme doing 1MB I/O took 16 seconds. 2. When doing rsync -a /dir1/dir2 /dir3/dir4 Do not use pipe's, as they only read/write 5k at a time this is extremly slow, check it out with Solaris truss. Use sockets with