I've been running mldonkey today and i noticed that the cpu usage was at 100%, so i was wondering if mldonkey would eat up that much. so i checked taskmanager and to my suprize it was the ide.device consuming so much cpu power. it is around 80%. i had to lower its priority to get back some responsiveness of the system.

so how the hell is that possible??? is the cpu copying file between ram <-> HD??? reminds me of the old amiga days with all the ide adaptors without dma support.

i hope this is just a nasty bug or something.

"Public Screen Manager" also eats up 20-30% cpu power...

I have no idea what could be wrong. Is it on G4 or G5? Which filesystem and is there anything going on in debug? Run C:GetRamDebugLog to check it out...

there is no debug log in ram: when i use that command. sbar debug is also empty.

it is a PowerBook 5,8

Filesystem is standard SFS