The ntfs-3g driver is not exactly the optimal thing for NTFS, it consumes a lot of CPU, the commercial version of this driver lifts that limitation.
On Thursday 30 August 2012 21:43:21 Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all, > > ( I'm writing this message from my GMail.com account due to email > problems from [email protected] with respect to the Linux-IL > mailing list. Please reply to the list so I'll get your messages in > all of my accounts.) > > I have a laptop with the following specifications: > > « > I also have an Acer Aspire 5738DZG laptop with the following specs: > > Intel Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4300 @ 2.10GHz. (x86-64). > ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4570 (r700) > 15.6״ 3D HD LCD Screen. > 3 GB Memory > 320 GB Hard Disk Drive. > “DVD Super Multi DL drive” > Acer Nplify™ 802.11b/g/n. > > » > > Now it dual boots between Windows 7 x86-64 (which I hardly use) and > Mageia Linux 2 x86-64. Since I have a lot of space in my Windows 7 > partition, I decided to use it to store many of my music files, so > they get stored at /media/win_d/Music/mp3 , which has this as its > /etc/fstab > entry: > > UUID=24A43690A4366488 /media/win_d ntfs-3g defaults,umask=022 0 0 > > Now, if I view this directory using a tab of KDE-4.8.x's Konqueror in > file manager mode (in order to select and drag and drop files to my > media player), I see > ntfs-3g constantly consuming roughly 18% of my CPU, which I suspect > causes the laptop to overheat. > > I checked and ntfs-3g also consumes CPU if I run «ls -l > /media/win_d/Music/mp3/» on the command line, so > I guess that Konqueror constantly rescans that directory for detecting > changes. > > Can anyone tell me how I can prevent Konqueror from consuming a lot of > CPU this way? > > Regards, > > -- Shlomi Fish _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
