From: Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> > 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. Reminds me of old CDROMs that would use an insane amount of CPU. Like the cheap RAID drivers that have a lot of the logic in the driver. Same for cheap winprinters. etc... JD