DSL Tips and Tricks :: Swap Partition

Why should swap be used as a file copying buffer?
It's RAM replacement, and most file copying only uses ram some blocks at a time, some tens of kb's..

Quote (sankarv @ Sep. 30 2008,01:38)

hi...

i was doing a huge copy operation from my hard disk to usb drive and since it was too slow (i found a difference with DSL linux speed(which is known for that) itself in fact ).

i checked my swap space with free command but swap was not at all utilized.

What may be the reason for that?

By the way i have 512 MB ram with celeron 1.7 ghz processor and 1.1 GB of swap space.

Also the data's total size is 4.0 GB.

Is the data one (or a bunch) of big files, or hundreds of little files? DO you have DMA enabled for your harddrive? Are your usb ports 2.0? Is your external drive usb 2.0?

i was trying to copy two movie files dvd vob format which comes 2 gb each, ya my usb ports and drive usb is the latest one...

reg. dma im not sure how to do that....

Just add the boot code dma...

thanks will check it out...

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