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2011-05-20 , 23:12
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#2262
Eero Tamminen of Nokia blames "your program" for causing all the problems. Apparently if "your program" doesn't have a workaround for the N900's idiosyncratic way of caching data?

Ok, so your copy program is causing "swapping hell" by poisoning page cache and pushing all processes to swap.

Do copies with the file manager or gnome-vfs (which has been fixed to tell kernel that that all the data it's copying doesn't need to be cached) instead of cp / dd.
As I said in the bug report I link to below, I would love a little app that "tells the kernel" to stop caching data for any arbitrary command or shell session, the way you can run "time <command>" or "tsocks <command>". It would be cool to be able to run, "nocache lzma "


https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9353#c18
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