Tell us about your hardware. Processor Memory Mother Board etc... Sam. Ian Stoner wrote: >After I copy a large file (~30 megs) my processor activity shoots up to >100% for 10 to 15 seconds, and I can't use my system during that time. >As the files get bigger, the amount of time the processor has to noodle >also grows. If I copy a gigabyte file, my computer can be out of >commission for 20 minutes. Is this normal behavior, or do I likely have >something configured wrong? > >I'm using Debian Sarge, kernel 2.4.20, ext2 filesystem, and two IDE >harddrives on my primary controller. The behavior seems to happen no >matter where I'm copying from and to: one partition to another, one >drive to another, or within the same partition. I didn't have these >slowdowns back in Windows days, so I don't *think* it is purely a >hardware issue. However, most of the things I do with linux that cause >the problem (like writing decent metadata to ogg/mp3 files) are not >things that I ever did in Windows, so it might be that back then I never >asked my harddisks to do these things that they don't like doing... > >Thanks, >Ian > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list