{ And you were copying to and from locations on the same drive? Or was
there another drive involved? }
I was copying from the same drive to the same drive in the same
partition. This was a SATA drive.
What filesystem(s) are mounted at these (source and destination)
locations? (ext3? ext4? other?)
The filesystems were ext3.
Someone else mentioned possible I/O problem.
What is a bit irritating in all this is that cp should NOT have
grabbed so much main memory and allocated it to disk cache. It took
99.65% of the memory. I would have expected it to throttle back and
only use 95% of the available memory, insteading of grabbing
everything but 86 megabytes, which was almost minimal for this smp
system. (16 processors)
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