[CentOS] slugishness

[Rajagopal Swaminathan]

Greetings,

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Jerry Geis<geisj at pagestation.com> 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 so this backup doesnt slow my system
> down so much? I dont see HOW it can be taking so much CPU.
> top at times shows 0 idle or 11% idle from a USB backup.
>

also try out these

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Disk_Optimization

Regards

Rajagopal