cp of big file causes high loadavg

[Remco van 't Veer <rwvtveer@xs4all.nl>]

When moving or copying a big file (>100Mb) across filesystems, the
loadavg climbs from below 1 to 5, X screen refresh gets choppy and
xmms starts to stutter.

Anybody know any tweaks to avoid this problem?  I played around with
hdparm but the problem remains.  Sysctl maybe?

I am using a P3 with 256Mb RAM and 3 IDE harddisks running potato.

TIA,
Remco


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