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cp is a cpu hog

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From: "U.Mutlu" <um <at> mutluit.com>
To: 16309 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16309: cp is a cpu hog
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 08:37:35 +0100

Hello,
there is a big bug with the cp command: it eats all cpu resources,
the system is not responsive while copying a huge file,
say a file of size 10 GB.

There are other _desasterous_ consequences of this behaviour,
if interessted I can tell you.

OS: Debian, 64bit, latest, happens also on other distros like Ubuntu,
see for example these links:
 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1206936
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/365775

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4290679/why-high-io-rate-operations-slow-everything-on-linux
 ...

I suggest you just place a nanosleep(a_small_value)
in the loop that does the copy operation.
From my experience in simular situations this helps much.

Best regards & Happy New Year
U.Mutlu

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