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[Jeffrey Ross]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Jeffrey Ross wrote:
>   
>> I just starting moving a lot of files on to a USB hard disk, which
>> consists of deleting about 20 GB of data and then putting about 15GB of
>> data back on.  This appears to be working fine, however....
>>
>> Once I started the data copies (two of them) and the "empty trash"
>> commands all at the same time I noticed that I lost the ability to
>> manipulate the windows on the screen.  I lost the border around the
>> windows, I can't resize, minimize, maximize etc.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks, Jeff
>>
>>     
> Only have one operation going on the USB hard drive at a time. Heavy
> access of a USB drive tends to slow an OS to a crawl. I am not sure
> if it is because of too much code that runs with interrupts
> disabled, or too many interrupts to get the data to the drive, but
> there is a definite slowdown once the buffers are full, and you are
> down to direct write speed. You man be able to improve thing using
> nice or renice to lower the priority of the copy operation.
>
> Mikkel
>   

The machine itself never became sluggish.  but I lost all the borders on 
all my windows, they never returned when the copy was done.  I had to 
logout and log back in for them to return.

Jeff