On my desktop installation (no ssd), sometimes (sporadically) when I try to move files between drives with the Nemo file manager, the system slows to a crawl and becomes basically unusable. My guess is that the system is caching all the gigabytes of the files being transferred and that knocks all of the more useful system files out of memory so it has to refetch them from the disk to keep using the system.
- Is there a way to tell Nemo to do file transfers directly (avoiding system cache)? Maybe something like
direct
flag indd
? - Is there a way to tell the Linux kernel to prioritize files on the system drive over files being transferred?
cp
orrsync
or whatever), or does it only happen innemo
? – cas Aug 01 '19 at 01:57nemo file manager slow
or similar - it seems that there have been numerous complaints over the years about nemo's performance, especially in directories with lots of files. – cas Aug 01 '19 at 02:00nemo
itself being slow, not a nemo file transfer slowing down the rest of the system. – SurpriseDog Aug 01 '19 at 02:08