From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752570Ab3K3NEa (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Nov 2013 08:04:30 -0500 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:54213 "EHLO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751874Ab3K3NEZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Nov 2013 08:04:25 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: 4YEU/+Ivb+gwcqpaArYDvH6Skm75kKLq8s8Hikhqa7ZE 1385816664 Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:04:17 -0200 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: venkata koppula Cc: Austin S Hemmelgarn , Andreas Mohr , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Copying large files eats all of the RAM Message-ID: <20131130130417.GA21857@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <20131129215616.GA32242@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> <52992659.5040503@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint1: 4096R/39CB4807 C467 A717 507B BAFE D3C1 6092 0BD9 E811 39CB 4807 X-GPG-Fingerprint2: 1024D/1CDB0FE3 5422 5C61 F6B7 06FB 7E04 3738 EE25 DE3F 1CDB 0FE3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh