On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Jim Garrison <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/28/2012 7:08 PM, website reader wrote: > > Is the odd behavior of the "cp" command which I have observed normal? > > > [snip] > > How much memory does your system have? If it's not being otherwise > used, it might grab that much for disk cache, but it will be reclaimed > when needed and shouldn't cause spilling to the swap partition. > > How much swap is in use when this happens? If it doesn't go up then > it's just normal disk caching using otherwise unused memory. If it > does go up then there may be a problem. > > > as for other commands taking more time to run, this could be explained by those commands waiting for access to the disk while the cp command is taking up most of the IO capacity. this would not necessarily be a result of too little memory available.
this problem could be compounded if your swap is set up on the same device as /large. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
