Improve disk response time

From: Ross (ross_at_nospam.com)
Date: 10/10/03 

Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 22:39:51 -0400

Hi there,
I have an IBM ThinkPad T30 laptop running Red Hat Linux 7.2.
When heavily using the hard drive (e.g. copying a big file), the rest of the
machine grinds to a halt, mouse cursor can't move intermittently, it takes
very long time to open a new window until the copying is completed.
Is there anything that can be done to improve/tune disk/system response
time?
Any idea would be appreciated.
Ross

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