Hi all,
I forgot to write my question in english, therefore I'm asking the
same again, now in english:

When I access my external USB harddisk (for example copy a huge file
to /dev/null), the CPU load indicator of KDE (system monitor) goes
to nearly 100%. But the system is not slow during that time. Other
programs that do not access the same disk at the same time run still
with perfect performance.

My CPU is an AMD Athlon mobile version. During this high load
period, the CPU clock remins at the lowest possible value (800Mhz)
and does not change to the highest possible value (1800Mhz) as it
normally does when the CPU is very busy.

When I switch it manually to 1800Mhz and disable the "on demand"
control, then the program that accesses the external harddisk runs
with exactly the same performance. This lets me assume that the CPU
is only very low loaded during external harddisk access but the
system monitor of KDE shows me exactly the opposite.

The external disk can transfer about 15-20MB per second, I think
this is good. I thinks that my system runs fine and has no problem.
Only the CPU load indicator looks strange.

For comparision: Windows show less than 15% CPU load when I do the
same.

Is there any explanation for that behaviour? Is this normal?

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Author of SMS Server Tools
http://www.meinemullemaus.de




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