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 When copying large amounts of data, e.g. digital images to an usb drive, I noticed laggy system behaviour, to the point that the mouse would not move.  When copying large amounts of data, e.g. digital images to an usb drive, I noticed laggy system behaviour, to the point that the mouse would not move. 
  
-The problem seems to be cache queue blot, which I could reduce by adding these settings to my local sysctl config file (/etc/sysctl.d/my-sysctl.conf>:+The problem seems to be cache queue bloat, which I could reduce by adding these settings to my local sysctl config file (/etc/sysctl.d/my-sysctl.conf>:
  
 <file my-sysctl.conf> <file my-sysctl.conf>
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-I had to reboot the system because ''sudo sysctl -p'' did not reload the values. For more details on this see the  +I had to reboot the system because ''sudo sysctl -p'' did not reload the values. For more details on this see the references
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