Ubuntu - File Copy Seems Resource Intensive

[ubuntu at rio.vg]

Gregory Piñero wrote:
> On 7/17/06, ubuntu at rio.vg <ubuntu at rio.vg> wrote:
>> 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...
> 
> Good point, I've only tried it with ntfs to ext3.  Perhaps that
> requires a lot more resources from Ubuntu?
> 
> I have compared doing this same task in Ubuntu vs Xubuntu and Xubuntu
> seems to allow the rest of the system to run normally.  I guess that's
> to be expected.  Perhaps I could just live in Xunbuntu.
> 

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...