On 27 August 2011 12:34, Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2805@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. >> >> > > Seriously? This doesn't happen in Windows 7. Also when I copy files > from my new HDD to a pendrive my system still slows down. The new HDD > is less than a month old. This is a scheduler bottleneck, and AFAICR, a Linux deficiency that Con Kolivas trie(s|d) to improve with the BFS. From personal experience, BFS was much, much better, to the point that there was no noticeable slow-down. -- GPG/PGP ID: 8AADBB10
