incremental disk wipe?

[rikona]

Saturday, March 7, 2015, 1:55:18 PM, rikona wrote:

> The crashing pgm is LO Calc. Happens when trying to change cell
> formats during intensive disk use. The pgm doesn't respond [5-10
> sec], then 'darkens' [busy] for a while [10-20 secs] then crashes.
> Can recover OK on restart, but does the same thing. This has never
> happened other than when intensive disk use, and is quite
> reproducible then. Other pgms may be quite slow but don't crash.

Just ran across ionice. Tried copying a very large file [busy 15 min
or so] to the USB2 drive and then set ionice for cp to idle - the
lowest io priority. Tried LO Calc - still crashes. Maybe not an io
problem for Calc...

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 rikona