On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Jerry Geis<geisj at pagestation.com> 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 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. > > Thanks for any suggestions. $ man renice Didi > > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >