[arch-general] system slowing down when copying files.

[Loui Chang]

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.