I've experienced a very similar problem Ubuntu 9.10. copying a large
file from ext4 filing system to USB ntfs drive (23GB). mount.ntfs
consuming 85-95% + of CPU most of which is %user. iostat 6 100 shows
writes at 83/sec or less. It will succeed eventually but will probably
take best part of
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: openoffice.org
Ubuntu 9.10 OpenOffice 3.1.1 Spreadsheet with lookups using named ranges
is not auto recalculating Tools / Cell Contents / Autocalculate is
checked. The spreadsheet was created originally in Excel 2003 formulas
noticed:
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38409695/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: XsessionErrors.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38409696/XsessionErrors.txt
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OpenOffice 3.1.1 spreadsheet won't auto recalculate
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/512797