Re: [gentoo-user] Copying USB->USB: sync after every file

2017-01-25 Thread Michael Mol
On Monday, January 23, 2017 5:53:35 PM EST Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 04:50:33PM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Can you give me a nudge? My sysctl.conf has only one active line besides > > some netfilter stuff: > > vm.swappiness = 1 > > (This is an SSD, I don’t even

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying USB->USB: sync after every file

2017-01-23 Thread Jeremi Piotrowski
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 04:50:33PM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Can you give me a nudge? My sysctl.conf has only one active line besides > some netfilter stuff: > vm.swappiness = 1 > (This is an SSD, I don’t even have swap on this machine unless I know I > definitely need it temporarily)

[gentoo-user] Copying USB->USB: sync after every file

2017-01-23 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hi list, I need a pointer, please. Something is amiss on my laptop’s setup. When I copy a number of big files (i.e. videos) from one USB device to another, it starts to read the file, then after a few seconds starts to write to the destination and only *after* that file has been completely