Re: cp of big file causes high loadavg
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 04:01:04PM +0100, Remco van 't Veer generated a stream of 1s and 0s:
As, I said, IDE sucks. 'nuff said.
> When moving or copying a big file (>100Mb) across filesystems, the
> loadavg climbs from below 1 to 5, X screen refresh gets choppy and
> xmms starts to stutter.
>
> Anybody know any tweaks to avoid this problem? I played around with
> hdparm but the problem remains. Sysctl maybe?
>
> I am using a P3 with 256Mb RAM and 3 IDE harddisks running potato.
>
> TIA,
> Remco
>
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