Thomas - the kernel tries very hard to avoid that sort of thing happening and to throttle a process generating too much I/O. Older kernels were certainly very bad at that and an rsync to a USB disk was horrible. It ought to be much better with the most recent kernels although still not great.
Thomas - the kernel tries very hard to avoid that sort of thing happening and to throttle a process generating too much I/O. Older kernels were certainly very bad at that and an rsync to a USB disk was horrible. It ought to be much better with the most recent kernels although still not great.