Ubuntu - File Copy Seems Resource Intensive

[Adriano Varoli Piazza]

2006/7/17, ubuntu at rio.vg <ubuntu at rio.vg>:
> That's REALLY weird... as I understand it, the only difference between
> Ubuntu and Xubuntu and Kutuntu is the X environment...  I wonder... does
> the command-line `cp` cause the problem, too?
>
> I don't use Gnome, so I can't give you any direction there, but perhaps
> it's just Gnome's Nautilus file manager taking up all the resources...

I remember reading somewhere that minimizing nautilus while this kind
of operations took place made it much faster/responsive/cleaner with
Pure White (TM). Might want to try that too.

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