Hi, I am using cp command to copy a list of files each with size of around 1GB (copy within the same hard disk).
My laptop has 4GB of ram, before I issue the command around 1.5GB of memory is used, when I issue the cp command around 3.7GB of memory is used. And the cp command takes a lot of time to copy. I am not able to launch other applications(take a lot of time) and even compiz freezes frequently. my laptop has Ubuntu installed on it. Is this the problem with only my system or it is a common problem with Linux?. Is there any way to stop any copy command to use all of my memory. Thanks Venkat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/