Ubuntu - File Copy Seems Resource Intensive

[ubuntu at rio.vg]

Gregory Piñero wrote:
> On 7/17/06, Lea Gris <lea.gris at noiraude.net> wrote:
>> 32bit and multisector fetch should enhance file and random access
>> significantly wheras raw disk access top at 26Mb/s. Look like your
>> motherboard or disk is three or four years old or it is a mid range laptop.
> 
> Thanks.  My motherboard is about 5 years old.  The disk is brand new
> though.  Perhaps that is the problem.
> It's not the transfer times that bother, rather that Gnome seems to
> nearly lock up while it is transferring.  Could I perhaps do something
> like have disk copies get a higher nice value by default?
> 

You can use "ionice", but one thing you might want to try: Do you have
the same problem with ext3 to ext3 copies?  Earlier, you mentioned you
were copying from NTFS, and NTFS support in Linux is less than complete...