On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:54:34PM -0700, website reader wrote: > What is a bit irritating in all this is that cp should NOT have > grabbed so much main memory and allocated it to disk cache. It took > 99.65% of the memory. I would have expected it to throttle back and > only use 95% of the available memory, insteading of grabbing > everything but 86 megabytes,
Why? What's lead you to that belief? What else was the system doing? >From your description the system was just copying the file(s). It was caching the only significant activity on the system. What is surprising about that? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du jour: Pepper has been called 'the gift of the East,' though 'gift' means poison in Swedish. don't let that put you off. ~ label of Scandinavian Airlines salt and pepper packet _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug