Hello, there is a big bug with the cp command: it eats all cpu resources, the system is not responsive while copying a huge file, say a file of size 10 GB.
There are other _desasterous_ consequences of this behaviour, if interessted I can tell you. OS: Debian, 64bit, latest, happens also on other distros like Ubuntu, see for example these links: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1206936 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/365775 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4290679/why-high-io-rate-operations-slow-everything-on-linux ... I suggest you just place a nanosleep(a_small_value) in the loop that does the copy operation. From my experience in simular situations this helps much. Best regards & Happy New Year U.Mutlu
