System slowdown on large disk writes

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:12:47AM -0500, Neil Watson wrote:
>What is the size and filesystem of the partitions you are copying from
>and to?

I'm copying 500Mb to 4Gb files to another location on the same ext3
(I think - how would I check?) 140-odd Gb partition.
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yours,

William

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