Re: Copying large files eats all of the RAM

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 30 Nov 2013, venkata koppula wrote:
> 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.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/108708/focus=1588604

Can also help when you have a mix of slow-as-heck and fast devices.

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  Henrique Holschuh
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