On 12/2/05, Joseph Mack NA3T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Timothy A. Chagnon wrote: > > > You might be able to just renice the process to a lower priority. > > that was my first attempt. Since the CPU usage/load average > is already low, it had no effect at all. > > > Your idea of changing the memory that the copy process uses might work > > too. If you use dd instead of cp, you could set the block size (bs) > > to a smaller value. > > tried dd with bs=default and still interactive processes > (eg repainting a firefox screen, that would normally stay in > memory when I changed to another screen), were slow > (presumably the firefox screen had to be paged in from > disk). > > Thanks for the suggestions > > Joe
You might also try playing around with the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
