On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 12:58:21PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> wrote:
... > > your big buffers is that you are claiming resources even if you have > > no idea if they are available or not. > > What resources? It uses a small fraction of your RAM. If a 4 gig > machine can't spare a couple megs for a file copy, you're in trouble. > You should at least check against the rlimit of the process. It would suck if something as simple as cp would suddenly start to fail in strange cases. I wonder if the difference is noticeable or not. -- :wq Claudio
