After further experimentation it appears that the internal disk is the
culprit.
It is an ext3 partition mounted with the options:
defaults,noatime
The partition in question is not on the disk of the root partition. Any
suggestions are welcome.
Best wishes,
Jeanette
Oct 24 2016, J. C. has written:
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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