Ah, thanks (sorry, I should have read this before my last reply). It is probably in IOwait. If run "top" it should break it down.
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Stefan Frings wrote: > Hi all, > I forgot to write my question in english, therefore I'm asking the > same again, now in english: > > When I access my external USB harddisk (for example copy a huge file > to /dev/null), the CPU load indicator of KDE (system monitor) goes > to nearly 100%. But the system is not slow during that time. Other > programs that do not access the same disk at the same time run still > with perfect performance. > > My CPU is an AMD Athlon mobile version. During this high load > period, the CPU clock remins at the lowest possible value (800Mhz) > and does not change to the highest possible value (1800Mhz) as it > normally does when the CPU is very busy. > > When I switch it manually to 1800Mhz and disable the "on demand" > control, then the program that accesses the external harddisk runs > with exactly the same performance. This lets me assume that the CPU > is only very low loaded during external harddisk access but the > system monitor of KDE shows me exactly the opposite. > > The external disk can transfer about 15-20MB per second, I think > this is good. I thinks that my system runs fine and has no problem. > Only the CPU load indicator looks strange. > > For comparision: Windows show less than 15% CPU load when I do the > same. > > Is there any explanation for that behaviour? Is this normal? > > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
