On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:33:05PM +0000, THOMAS ADAM wrote:
Hello Hans,
Thomas,
Thanks for your response. Due to a defective (ADSL/ISDN) splitter I was not able to respond earlier.
I hate it when that happens :-)
So far the problem did not occur again. Since it was late at night that the phenomenon occurred I might have done something stupid. I did test with a working directory that I deleted from another xterm. In that case I could not create or copy any file into the directory. So I am still puzzeled.
One thing which you should check that this point is how much memory (both physical and swap) is being used at that point in time.
You said in your original thread to this e-mail, that it took a long time for files to move, etc.
One way around this is to issue the command "sync" which will force anything cached/stored in memory to be written to disk, which should then speed up performance.
No it won't. Sync flushes the write cache so that in the event of a crash the data/inodes etc are up to date on the disk. It won't make squat of a difference to a file copy/move. -- Regards Cliff