Re: [DNG] Caching leads to unresponsiveness

2017-08-12 Thread marc
> Linux uses all available more for caching of filesystems. When copying large > files to slow network filesystems (nfs, smb, sshfs, davfs) it takes a long > time until such allocated memory becomes free. When these network > filesystems saturate memory linux becomes very unresponsive. It can take

Re: [DNG] Caching leads to unresponsiveness

2017-08-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Joachim. Joachim Fahrner - 11.08.17, 17:43: > Linux uses all available more for caching of filesystems. When copying > large files to slow network filesystems (nfs, smb, sshfs, davfs) it > takes a long time until such allocated memory becomes free. When these > network filesystems saturate memo

Re: [DNG] Caching leads to unresponsiveness

2017-08-11 Thread Joachim Fahrner
Am 2017-08-11 18:21, schrieb Patrick Meade: http://www.linuxatemyram.com/index.html What they write is only true for fast disks. "If applications want more memory, they just take it back from the disk cache." I you write to a slow filesystem, it takes it's time until applications "get it b

Re: [DNG] Caching leads to unresponsiveness

2017-08-11 Thread Patrick Meade
On 08/11/2017 10:43 AM, Joachim Fahrner wrote: Linux uses all available more for caching of filesystems. When copying large files to slow network filesystems (nfs, smb, sshfs, davfs) it takes a long time until such allocated memory becomes free. When these network filesystems saturate memory l

Re: [DNG] Caching leads to unresponsiveness

2017-08-11 Thread Joachim Fahrner
Am 2017-08-11 17:43, schrieb Joachim Fahrner: Linux uses all available more Should be "memory", not "more" ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Caching leads to unresponsiveness

2017-08-11 Thread Joachim Fahrner
Linux uses all available more for caching of filesystems. When copying large files to slow network filesystems (nfs, smb, sshfs, davfs) it takes a long time until such allocated memory becomes free. When these network filesystems saturate memory linux becomes very unresponsive. It can take minu