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Re: USB external drive errors with many different hardware
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Lamar Owen <[log in to unmask]>
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Lamar Owen <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 1 Jul 2014 17:13:48 -0400
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On 07/01/2014 04:19 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
>    sysctl -w vm.dirty_background_bytes=67108864
>    sysctl -w vm.dirty_background_bytes=134217728
>
> This is not terribly likely to help, but it is worth a shot. If the
> problem really is the disk spinning down, at least this will be more
> likely to keep it busy...

Good advice.

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