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On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Dan <dan-freebsd-questions@ourbrains.org>wrote:

> Hello. I am copying one 150G disk to a 3ware mirror, and the machine
> becomes downright unusable. It takes seconds to switch between 'konsole'
> windows and it takes seconds between I type a command (ssh session to
> a remote box, which I know is fast and unloaded) and see it executed.
>
> This is 7.1-BETA2. Is this a bug or a generally-accepted performance
> behavior?


Bug? :-)

How are you copying?


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