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--- blog:copying_large_files_to_usb_device_blocks_system [2017-02-07 20:06] – brb
+++ blog:copying_large_files_to_usb_device_blocks_system [2017-04-03 17:09] (current) – brb
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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.
-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>
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 </file>
+I had to reboot the system because ''sudo sysctl -p'' did not reload the values. For more details on this see the references
+Ref:
+  * https://lonesysadmin.net/2013/12/22/better-linux-disk-caching-performance-vm-dirty_ratio/
+  * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1208993
-Ref: https://lonesysadmin.net/2013/12/22/better-linux-disk-caching-performance-vm-dirty_ratio/
+{{tag>linux cache queue}}
-{{tag>}}
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