[TriLUG] Failure Copying Large Amounts of Data

[Lance A. Brown]

This is a boondoggle.  Unless I don't know something about linux swap
space, it's not used when moving files around.  It's used to store pages
from memory when a process gets swapped out to run another program.

BTW,  that's a LOT of swap space for a linux machine. :-)

Steve Litt wrote:
> Fascinating! I have 24GB of swap, and the total of the 9 big files is 14GB. So 
> if somehow two different copies, one for src and one for dst, of all 14GB were 
> stored in swap, that would have indeed overloaded swap. The diagnostic test to 
> rule that in or out would be to make a shellscript that copies one file at a 
> time and blocks til the copy is complete. Presumably the swap would be 
> released after completion of a copy.

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