Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > > I powered down the box and changed the SATA mode in BIOS f4rom Auto to > Serial ATA. That did the trick > > avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle > 0.00 0.00 2.60 0.00 0.00 97.40 > and, note its now not only copying the data nearly 100X faster, its 97% idle. I believe your earlier iostat showed like 60% system time or something.