Firefox slowdown during big IO ops

[Slack Rat]

"William O'Higgins Witteman" a écrit profondement:

| I have noticed this before, but only started to really wonder about it
| recently.  During big IO operations, I find that Firefox slows down or
| becomes unresponsive.  Other applications are running at reduced speed,
| but only very slightly, and X shows no ill effects at all - mouse
| tracking is fast, desktop switching is fast, but Firefox takes a nap.
| 
| The IO in question is something like a mv of a 1.5Gb folder from one
| partition to another.
| 
| Can anyone explain why this is happening?
| 
| CPU Quad Core 2 (lightly loaded during the IO process)
| 2Gb RAM (hardly touched by the IO process)
| 
| Thanks!

Coincidentally the same happens with Opera

I'd always put it down to my Dinosaur 10 year old system though

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