random-tools
Random collection of specialized unix utilities, in most cases probably not useful to anybody. (by adh)
nocache
minimize caching effects (by Feh)
| random-tools | nocache | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | |
| 2 | 539 | |
| - | - | |
| 1.8 | 4.3 | |
| about 3 years ago | about 2 years ago | |
| C | C | |
| - | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
random-tools
Posts with mentions or reviews of random-tools.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-24.
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Is it better to use cat, dd, pv or another procedure to copy a CD/DVD?
Many years ago I wrote https://github.com/adh/random-tools/blob/master/byc.c which tends to be the tool that I use for copying images from/to block device (it was originally meant for something else which is why you need -p for it to do the right thing).
nocache
Posts with mentions or reviews of nocache.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-19.
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How to disable "Fake" file transfers?
I have considered other techniques like using https://github.com/Feh/nocache etc but never felt the pain so bad that I could make the effort. You can give that a shot though
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Rsync slow transferspeed on larger files
use nocache rsync ... to avoid RAM buffering. nocache is available in Linux Mint repos, and at https://github.com/Feh/nocache
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Linux Kernel: The multi-generational LRU
nocache¹. It is LD_PRELOAD based so will only function within the normal limitations of that. It also comes with a couple of tools for examining and modifying the file cache, which makes it useful to judge its value in your environment.
One of my biggest use cases for it is with soxi, which I use solely for playlist manipulation. I don't alias my source tree search tools, because invariably I'm going to want all that stuff in the cache anyway for builds and such.
¹ https://github.com/Feh/nocache
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Is it better to use cat, dd, pv or another procedure to copy a CD/DVD?
Also check https://github.com/Feh/nocache
What are some alternatives?
When comparing random-tools and nocache you can also consider the following projects:
usbimager
Caffeine - A high performance caching library for Java
progress - Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd, ... (formerly known as cv)
Popsicle - Multiple USB File Flasher
linux - Linux kernel source tree
glommio - Glommio is a thread-per-core crate that makes writing highly parallel asynchronous applications in a thread-per-core architecture easier for rustaceans.