On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 13:45 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 08/09/2010 12:36 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I've been copying some large (several GB) files from my local system to > > a NAS server on my LAN, using NFS. > > > > poc > > Usually you see this kind of problem when your HDD is thrashing. > > Try running your copy command with ionice: > ionice -c3 <command> > > Other things to check: > * run top in a separate window before you run the freezing command -- > see what it says when it works > * see if tty sessions in Ctrl+Alt+F2..F6 respond any better than the UI > > I've seen this too, and tty is almost the same as bad as UI. As a matter of fact there is an nfs related process eating the processor (nfs.mount or mount.nfs, if I remember correctly). I'm curious if this happens only on kde or it can be observed on gnome too. -- Calin Key fingerprint = 37B8 0DA5 9B2A 8554 FB2B 4145 5DC1 15DD A3EF E857 ================================================= Somewhere in suburban Honolulu, an unemployed bellhop is whipping up a batch of illegal psilocybin chop suey!! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines