[arch-general] cp from USB to interal sata uses up all CPU

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This happened to me yesterday, while copying from internal SATA to a USB3
stick with thunar. The operation ate all CPU.

On Oct 24, 2016 7:47 AM, "J. C." <julien at mail.upb.de> wrote:

> Hi list,
> I just noticed this today. I rebooted the system once, since the proper
> installation last week. Now cp from a USB drive to the internal sata drive
> eats up all CPU. The cp command is run as root - currently no alternative
> possible.
>
> The USB drive is mounted during system startup.
>
> A copy operation on the internal disk in question doesn't suffer from
> overuse of CPU resources. Copying from the USB disk to the USB disk isn't
> perfect, but uses only between 20-40% of CPU resources. The CPU frequency
> governor is set to ondemand.
>
> Can anybody suggest a remedy, please?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jeanette
>
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