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### Software
Ubuntu 20.04.  <---- bug still on 20.04. Agree with #103 #101 #94 #78

### Hardware
Several posts above mentioned hardware, RAM or RAM updates, so I will document 
mine as well.

Initial > ASUS K401UB :
- Intel Core i5-6200U (2.3GHz)
- 4GB DDR3L
- 1TB HDD,
- NVIDIA GeForce 940M 2GB DDR3

Improvements > RAM :
- Crucial CT102464BF160B : 8Go (DDR3L, 1600 MT/s, PC3L-12800, SODIMM, 204-Pin)
- Product page: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006YG8X9Y
- Date: 2 months ago.
- Now: 4+8=12GB.

### Symptomns: 
Past week, I copy large GIS files to my SSD. It starts super fast as expected, 
then fan runs wild and either :
- transfer and UI slows down
- transfer freeze temporarily, then restarts ; UI is fine
- transfer and UI freeze temporarily, then restarts
- transfers and UI totally freeze, after 10mins+ I reboot

This `top` output was when it was lagging:

$top
top - 12:11:32 up 1 day, 18:23,  1 user,  load average: 6,77, 4,46, 3,81
Tasks: 320 total,   5 running, 315 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 66,0 us, 13,7 sy,  0,0 ni,  6,9 id, 13,4 wa,  0,0 hi,  0,0 si,  0,0 st
MiB Mem :  11880,7 total,    156,0 free,   5664,9 used,   6059,8 buff/cache
MiB Swap:      0,0 total,      0,0 free,      0,0 used.   5324,5 avail Mem

### My little secret dirty hack
While copying, unmount the disk. The copying UI box pop an error.
Under the hood it seems to clears something.
Mount back the disk. Then on the copying UI box pop an error, click "retry".
It start again at full speed.

### Observations
This shows again that it's not a single file bug but a cache/cumulative issue.

While solid leads are shown above, no solution above solved it all so far.
After 6 years it may needs a professional dedicated on the case
for a definitive diagnostic and fix.

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