Re: Copying large files eats all of the RAM

Thanks for you replies. Yeah, I understand that we need to utilize the resources as much as we can. At the same time user should not feel that system is slow and user should never wait for the copying operation should complete to launch another application meanwhile. If the user is a system

Re: Copying large files eats all of the RAM

Thanks for you replies. Yeah, I understand that we need to utilize the resources as much as we can. At the same time user should not feel that system is slow and user should never wait for the copying operation should complete to launch another application meanwhile. If the user is a system

Copying large files eats all of the RAM

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

Copying large files eats all of the RAM

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