I don't know whether this is related, probably not, but if I copy large files from/to an usb disk, after a minute or so I get a very high system load and the desktop get's unresponsive and even freezes from time to time. I had that on hardy as well, though...
I use an 11g ap.
$ lsmod | grep -i ata ata_piix, ata_generic mod,sd_ mod,sg, libata
pata_acpi 13568 0
ata_piix 29444 2
ata_generic 14212 0
libata 200160 3 pata_acpi,
scsi_mod 183160 5 sbp2,sr_
dock 18464 1 libata
$ lspci |grep "Controller Hub"
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller
I don't know whether this is related, probably not, but if I copy large files from/to an usb disk, after a minute or so I get a very high system load and the desktop get's unresponsive and even freezes from time to time. I had that on hardy as well, though...