Re: [Hampshire] Slow computer

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Autor: Alan Pope
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Betreff: Re: [Hampshire] Slow computer
2009/11/6 Leo <linux@???>:
> While moving data around, my computer becomes very slow. Is this to be
> expected?
>


Are they USB disks?

If so I suspect that you're just IO bound all the time, waiting for
the USB bus/disk to finish doing what it's doing. I've seen that cause
load average to climb drastically as you say.

Cheers,
Al.