On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 12:58:21PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote:
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> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net> wrote:

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> > 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.

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:wq Claudio