[ale] cpu load 8.5 on usb to usb move

[Jim Kinney]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 17:48 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> load means number of process waiting for service. Since the USB
>> transfer process locks out other process from running while it does a
>> request to fetch, fetch, slurp into RAM, request to put, put, verify
>> put, other process line up and have to wait. The USB copy is a nasty
>> beast on systems.
>
> If memory serves, USB 3.0 will take care of that---devices in it are
> supposed to be a bit more intelligent than in USB 2.0 and prior.
>
> I still don't know why IEEE 1394 didn't win over USB...

Apple charged 2 arms and 3 legs for licensing the technology. So
EVERYONE dropped it. Even Apple (mostly).

>
>        --- Mike
>
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