On Sat 27 Aug 2011 09:12 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > Hi, > My system tends to slow down a lot when I copy files to and from a pen > drive or even from one hard disk to another. Even my mouse cursor > slows down. The system becomes almost unusable. I more than enough RAM > and I am using a tiling window manager. So I am not even using a lot > of RAM. Why is this happening? I can't work on my system if I run any > large file copy/move operation. Please help. > Thanks. Your hard drive might be dying. Back up your files now.