Z61p unusable during USB file transfer with openSuSE-10.2 64bit

Hi anybody!

I've configured hourly rsync backup between my home partition and an USB
hard disk.

Nothing special only 
rsync -va --delete /home/ffiene/ /media/disk/ffiene/

After rsync is started the system (Thinkpad Z61p mit Dual2 Core 2GHz,
4GB RAM, 100GB HD) is unusable slow. Has somebody the same problem and a
solution? I am using the 64bit version of openSuSE-10.2 of course!

Same problem with simply copying files to USB HD.

The notebook feels slower then my old T42p with Centrino 2GHz/2GB/100GB.

I've tried to enable irq_balancer to share interrupts on both CPUs 
(change of the start script to work with Dual Core), but this doesn't 
help.

Any help would be appreciated!

Regards
Frank
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