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...> clearly plenty of CPU RAM everything... > I can see "blocking" to write data to the external disk - but there are 31 > other cores and plenty of memory to make it "seem" as nothing is happening > right now. > > Those 31 cores are waiting for the hardware backbus to be opened up for writing. Until that happens they are just spinning. Some of this depends on how the motherboard is designed and some of this may be x86 architecture issues. > Do I need to 'tweak' something to no see GUI freezes... Waiting on > characters to show - even remoted...

Hi all, I have a customer server with 32 cores, 128G ram i7960X. So nice box... Why is it that "all" I am really doing at the moment is copying things to an external SSD disk USB3 connected and the machine "freezes"... Why is that? clearly plenty of CPU RAM everything... I can see "blocking" to write data to the external disk - but there are 31 other cores and