On Mar 28, 2012, at 10:54 PM, website reader wrote:

> 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)

As I understand it, cp has no memory management capabilities. The memory 
management is handled at the kernel level. 

Russell Johnson
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