Re: cp of big file causes high loadavg
Maybe something is wrong with my bios settings. Anybody any ideas?
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 10:22, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> >>>>> "Remco" == Remco van 't Veer <rwvtveer@xs4all.nl> writes:
>
> Remco> When moving or copying a big file (>100Mb) across
> Remco> filesystems, the loadavg climbs from below 1 to 5, X screen
> Remco> refresh gets choppy and xmms starts to stutter.
>
> I just tried it, but didn't see anything weird happen -- my load
> average never got above 1.5
>
> Remco> I am using a P3 with 256Mb RAM and 3 IDE harddisks running
> Remco> potato.
>
> I was using a PII with 192 Mb RAM and two IDE disks, although I moved
> the file from one partition on one disk to another partition on the
> same disk. I'm running Linux potato 2.2.14.
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