[TriLUG] file copy flushing memory

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Timothy A. Chagnon wrote:

> You might be able to just renice the process to a lower priority.

that was my first attempt. Since the CPU usage/load average 
is already low, it had no effect at all.

> Your idea of changing the memory that the copy process uses might work
> too.  If you use dd instead of cp, you could set the block size (bs)
> to a smaller value.

tried dd with bs=default and still interactive processes 
(eg repainting a firefox screen, that would normally stay in 
memory when I changed to another screen), were slow 
(presumably the firefox screen had to be paged in from 
disk).

Thanks for the suggestions

Joe

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