I have had this problem for a while now and just fixed it by adding
"noatime,nodiratime" to the mount options in fstab, as suggested at
http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148 .

The problem was on a SATA drive I use for storage. Copying a 676mb file
from an IDE to the SATA drive before the fix:

> time cp test.tar /storage/.

real    1m38.573s
user    0m0.032s
sys     0m4.132s

And after:

> time cp test.tar /storage/.

real    0m7.128s
user    0m0.004s
sys     0m2.892s

The cpu usage during transfer was about 3%, now it ranges from 15-50%. I
don't notice it, but I just thought I should say.

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Slow SATA performance
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119730
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