UI freezes while copying large file via NFS

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 10:49 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > $ cat /proc/interrupts
> >           CPU0       CPU1
> >  31:   58723167          0   PCI-MSI-edge      eth0
> >  23:    1445442          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb5
> 
> Ethernet is using MSI interrupts with no sharing.
> I do see sharing on a very busy USB port, but I doubt that this is the
> cause for the slow down.
> Doesn't look like a hardware / driver configuration problem to me.
> 
> Just to be certain, if you copy files from the USB drive to you local
> HD, do you see the same problem?

I mentioned this in my first post. It doesn't happen with copies to the
local HD.

poc