Re: background or foreground copies, CPU eating

2013-12-28 Thread wwp
Hello Yury, On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 22:00:19 +0100 Yury V. Zaytsev y...@shurup.com wrote: On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 10:47 +0100, wwp wrote: Could anyone tell me what's the difference between foreground and background copies? Are background copies being 'niced' down or low-system prioritized?

Re: background or foreground copies, CPU eating

2013-12-27 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 10:47 +0100, wwp wrote: Could anyone tell me what's the difference between foreground and background copies? Are background copies being 'niced' down or low-system prioritized? If so, could that be an option for foreground copies, to make them more user-friendly? I

background or foreground copies, CPU eating

2013-12-13 Thread wwp
Hello there, I'm (happily) using mc for years, and performing copies/moves all day long with it. What I noticed on my laptop system, is that copying big files (say stuff like movie files, 250Mb), will often perform quite slowly and uncomfortably when it's done over USB2. I don't know if it's

Re: background or foreground copies, CPU eating

2013-12-13 Thread William Kimber
Hi, With Flash drives aka USB sticks. The system copies stuff to them then there is a pause while it gets written to the actual chips but that is not the case with USB hard drives. I have found that the transfer rate is not up to what it is claimed for USB2 when writing to USB hard drives.