On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:14:27PM +0000, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > > cp <500MB file> otherfile
> > >
> > > no delayed reactions in everything?
> >
> > I didn't experience it. I tried with your settings, I also have 128M RAM.
> > However I did notice a strange thing:
> > for various reasons on both systems I tested,, the copy goes from/to
> > a different disk than the system disk. While I do the copy,
> > 'systat vm' also shows some activity on the system disk, although
> > disk. Are you doing the cp from/to the same disk as the system
> > disk ?
> 
> i have only one disk (wd0, 20GB)
> 
> 
> try using navigator while copying.
> 
> in 1.5.2 i was doing it often - no problems.

I only have opera :) But it works.
See my next message. If the cp activity is on the system disk I get the
symptoms.

> 
> 
> >
> > What could cause this activity on wd0 ?
> 
> no idea. are you sure it's not something else?
> your load is over 4...

Yes I'm sure. Activity on wd0 starts at soon as I start cp, and ends as soon
as cp ends.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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