[TriLUG] file copy flushing memory

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

Occassionally I copy several 100G of files to another 
machine for backup. This doesn't put any particular load on 
either machine but other processes crawl, presumably because 
memory is being flushed. Is this the likely explanation? If 
so is there a way to restrict the amount of memory that the 
copy uses?

Thanks Joe

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