Re: [CentOS] slugishness

2009-07-15 Thread Warren Young
Scott Silva wrote: > USB I believe is not a DMA based port, so the processor has to do a lot of > work, especially at higher speeds. Rsync can also be a resource hog, as it > keeps most of the hash tables in memory it uses to compare files with. True enough, though I wouldn't say USB is the whole

Re: [CentOS] slugishness

2009-07-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-3-2009 5:30 AM Jerry Geis spake the following: > Hi all, > > I have a 3G AM2 quad core CPU... x86_64 centos 5.3 > > > When I am doing backing up to my external USB drive > my system becomes sluggish. Clicking on a thunderbird compose > takes some time to pop up the window. Typing doesn't ke

Re: [CentOS] slugishness

2009-07-03 Thread John Doe
From: Jerry Geis > When I am doing backing up to my external USB drive > my system becomes sluggish. Clicking on a thunderbird compose > takes some time to pop up the window. Typeing doesnt keep up etc... > Is there something I can change so this backup doesnt slow my system > down so much? I don

Re: [CentOS] slugishness

2009-07-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2009-07-03 16:02, Jerry Geis wrote: >> />/ I have a 3G AM2 quad core CPU... x86_64 centos 5.3 >> />/ >> />/ >> />/ When I am doing backing up to my external USB drive >> />/ my system becomes sluggish. Clicking on a thunderbird compose >> />/ takes some time to pop up the window. Typeing doesn

Re: [CentOS] slugishness

2009-07-03 Thread Jerry Geis
> > >/ > />/ Hi all, > />/ > />/ I have a 3G AM2 quad core CPU... x86_64 centos 5.3 > />/ > />/ > />/ When I am doing backing up to my external USB drive > />/ my system becomes sluggish. Clicking on a thunderbird compose > />/ takes some time to pop up the window. Typeing doesnt keep up etc...

Re: [CentOS] slugishness

2009-07-03 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:30:43 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a 3G AM2 quad core CPU... x86_64 centos 5.3 > > > When I am doing backing up to my external USB drive > my system becomes sluggish. Clicking on a thunderbird compose > takes some time to pop up the window. T

Re: [CentOS] slugishness

2009-07-03 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi all, > > When I am doing backing up to my external USB drive > my system becomes sluggish. Clicking on a thunderbird compose > takes some time to pop up the window. Typeing doesnt keep up etc... > > Is there something I can change s

Re: [CentOS] slugishness

2009-07-03 Thread Didi
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a 3G AM2 quad core CPU... x86_64 centos 5.3 > > > When I am doing backing up to my external USB drive > my system becomes sluggish. Clicking on a thunderbird compose > takes some time to pop up the window. Typeing doesnt keep up

[CentOS] slugishness

2009-07-03 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I have a 3G AM2 quad core CPU... x86_64 centos 5.3 When I am doing backing up to my external USB drive my system becomes sluggish. Clicking on a thunderbird compose takes some time to pop up the window. Typeing doesnt keep up etc... Is there something I can change so this backup doesnt