UI freezes while copying large file via NFS

[John Mellor]

On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 19:10 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 15:46 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > Use rsync to do the copying and come up with a --bwlimit
> > option that will keep it from completely clogging the
> > network and let it catch its breath sometimes.
> 
> I don't think clogging the network is really the issue but when I
> throttled it to 100KBPS I got no freezing. Have to try some other values
> to see where it kicks in.

Are you seeing perhaps a common ethernet and disk or ethernet and video
using the same interrupt?  If so, then perhaps it would be good to
separate them in your BIOS configuration if you can...