On 29/09/2010 14:12, Ian Chapman wrote: > On 28/09/10 22:07, Simon Andrews wrote: > >> Does anyone know how to either make this buffer smaller, or get rid of >> it all together so the scp can accruately report on its progress? > > You could try adjusting /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio. > > "Contains, as a percentage of total system memory, the number of pages > at which a process which is generating disk writes will itself start > writing out dirty data" > > The default seems to be 20 on Fedora 13. For example to set it to 5% > (which is the lowest it will go I believe): That sounds like it might be an answer. It's a shame there's no way to specify this per-process, but this machine does have quite a bit of RAM in it, so having this specified as a percentage of RAM might make it larger than we'd want. I'll have a play and see what effect this has. Cheers Simon. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
