[ale] cpu load 8.5 on usb to usb move

[james.sumners at gmail.com (James Sumners)]

Most of the USB transfer work is done on your processor. It's really
that simple.

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Geoffrey Myers
<lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> I'd really like for someone to explain to me why it is when I attempt to
> move a large directory (31g) from one usb device to another, it pushes
> my load average up so much:
>
> load average: 8.08, 5.82, 3.25
>
> Yet the mv process is consuming 11.6% of my cpu.
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey



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