From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757556AbZEORH7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2009 13:07:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751349AbZEORHu (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2009 13:07:50 -0400 Received: from mail-px0-f123.google.com ([209.85.216.123]:39026 "EHLO mail-px0-f123.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751159AbZEORHt (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2009 13:07:49 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=uQwkDzN/VnZaQtmeOWF45l1kwrIXBswBuKS9ywZ0y6KOVnjNkXKFVbThdaIJsKS1Ry lmvMbsnZAclUWrqGNHnLxSEGNdmdWAcJc9FBXA0umASq4SsrH9ScfclUlBbAUAiZaJdN kkaURonvpYA14yl/1HH0k6uru0WokvqZxJx3k= MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 22:37:51 +0530 Message-ID: <93655eb70905151007v5f9bb34aj34be4b65ffeb02a4@mail.gmail.com> Subject: unresponsiveness on linux desktop during file copy From: Satish Eerpini To: linux-kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello everyone, I am trying to figure out why the Linux desktop becomes overly unresponsive whenever there is a file copy going on, this happens to a large extent with GUI based file copying, and some lesser, but with command line copying too. does it have anything to do with the kernel ??, if it does help, then I am running Fedora 10 on a Hp nx 7400, Centrino Duo processor. Cheers Satish -- http://satish.playdrupal.com