It's possible you were seeing another problem, but this issue is more likely to appear with a faster network connection, because the network transfer happens fa

It's possible you were seeing another problem, but this issue is more likely to appear with a faster network connection, because the network transfer happens faster than the disk writes. You can confirm by watching /proc/meminfo and watching the Dirty and Writeback numbers. Changing up the vm.dirty* settings can help as described here: https://lonesysadmin.net/2013/12/22/better-linux-disk-caching-performance-vm-dirty_ratio/ https://lonesysadmin.net/2013/12/22/better-linux-disk-cachin...