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

[Ray Rashif]

On 27 August 2011 12:34, Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2805 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> 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.


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