On Tue 02 Dec 2003 at 01:51:58, Andrew Hunter said: > A couple of oddities: > 1) (This may be perfectly normal) It seems that when I am writing a > largish number of files (say, 200-300 mp3s, a similar number of largish > pdfs or zips, etc) to a Samba share, the copy process "staggers". By > this I mean that it seems to copy quickly, then stops for a while, goes > quickly again, stops for a while, etc.
How much RAM does your system have? Run these three status programs during the "staggers": - free : tells you memory usage - uptime : tells you "load" average - ps aux : tells you all running processes and their resource usage I bet what you're seeing is that your system is trying to cache all the incoming data and you're making your system start paging (using swap space). Either that, or your system just isn't able to write it to disk fast enough. Unfortunately, I don't know how to get around this. -- Soren Harward [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
