[PLUG] a bit more information

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:54:34PM -0700, website reader wrote:
> What is a bit irritating in all this is that cp should NOT have
> grabbed so much main memory and allocated it to disk cache.  It took
> 99.65% of the memory.  I would have expected it to throttle back and
> only use 95% of the available memory, insteading of grabbing
> everything but 86 megabytes, 

Why?
What's lead you to that belief?
What else was the system doing?

>From your description the system was just copying the file(s). 
It was caching the only significant activity on the system. 
What is surprising about that?


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