Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 May 2009 10:12:38 -0700 | Subject | Re: unresponsiveness on linux desktop during file copy | From | Mark Knecht <> |
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On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Satish Eerpini <eerpini@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am trying to figure out why the Linux desktop becomes overly > unresponsive whenever there is a file copy going on, this happens to a > large extent with GUI based file copying, and some lesser, but with > command line copying too. > does it have anything to do with the kernel ??, > if it does help, then I am running Fedora 10 on a Hp nx 7400, Centrino > Duo processor. > > Cheers > Satish > --
Quickly, is the system getting good hard drive performance overall?
hdparm -tT /dev/sda
or whatever device you are using. Maybe it's stuck in some sort of programmed IO or something very old?
- Mark
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