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

[Madhurya Kakati]

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.