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 [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
