Hello there, i am a Mandriva 2008 user. When i try to copy big files i realized that the file transfer is very slow.. Especially slower then Windows. is it because of my distro or the reiserFS file system?

Hi and welcome to LQ.

I use reiserfs and don't have a problem with slow transfers. Do you have any other memory intensive processes running (check using a command called top)? Also how much memory do you have on your system?

Thank you

Well i have 2 GB's of memory. When i give the "top" command

top - 15:17:23 up 3:34, 2 users, load average: 0.41, 0.38, 0.45
Tasks: 115 total, 1 running, 114 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 7.8%us, 2.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 88.7%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.8%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2075472k total, 2021184k used, 54288k free, 36652k buffers
Swap: 104380k total, 1060k used, 103320k free, 1380440k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
18780 nuage 20 0 239m 94m 27m S 12 4.6 5:20.09 mozilla-firefox
11124 root 20 0 129m 118m 19m S 6 5.9 12:58.59 Xgl
21312 nuage 20 0 36312 13m 9252 S 4 0.7 0:00.67 gnome-terminal
11427 nuage 20 0 77748 29m 18m S 1 1.5 1:04.96 pidgin
11364 nuage 20 0 134m 64m 26m S 1 3.2 8:35.43 nautilus
11187 nuage 20 0 13532 8464 3488 S 1 0.4 0:53.20 compiz
10443 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:06.02 pdflush
11195 nuage 20 0 15572 2576 1808 S 0 0.1 0:18.72 gnome-screensav
15605 nuage 20 0 231m 83m 54m S 0 4.1 0:30.56 soffice.bin
21361 nuage 20 0 2328 976 760 R 0 0.0 0:00.48 top
1 root 20 0 1648 560 488 S 0 0.0 0:01.13 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:06.78 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:08.20 ksoftirqd/1
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.46 events/0

i get that something wrong?
Thanks for the help again.