> Unfortunately now the normal rate of doing tasks, like listing a
> directory or editing a file have all but stopped.
>
> {How much swap is in use when this happens?}
>
> 92k so obviously almost no swap is involved.
This is very odd. Can you try pausing the cp process temporarily (^Z)
to see if your system becomes more responsive? If it does, then it
could be that it is really an I/O issue.
Are you connecting to this system remotely? Are you copying to/from a
network drive?
There's a possibility that cp or a library it depends on has a memory
leak, but I would find this unusual.
An alternative way to copy large files would be to use dd. I often
find it is a bit faster for large files. You would use it something
like:
dd if=source.file of=dest.file bs=1M
tim
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