Comment 68 for bug 561210

The large size file transfer mentioned in the original posting sounds like the problem I'm having, too, but I'm not using NFS, I'm using an mdadm RAID1 setup. When a large file is copied, only the dpkg/apt/synaptic packages run slowly. The rest of the system seems to function well, including text terminals, gdm, and file transfers within and between non-RAID drives.

I do not remember having this problem with any other Ubuntu flavors and versions. It started when I setup RAID. If I remove the RAID, or do not transfer large files when running the package programs, it does not seem to cause problems.

My machine:
- OS: Ubuntu Linux 10.10
- CPU: Intel Q8200 Core 2 Quad