[TriLUG] Failure Copying Large Amounts of Data

[Steve Litt]

Disk space is cheap. I have 8GB of RAM.

STeveT

On Friday 16 April 2010 16:36:23 Lance A. Brown wrote: 
> 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.