OSMC SAMBA high CPU usage

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Hi,

ive got a NTFS formatted HDD connected to my Pi and using Samba ( installed over the APPstore ) to put file from my windows pc to the connected hdd on the PI.

That works good but the speed is only 50-70mbit/s so i thought its maybe the samba process consuming the cpu power.
so ich checked that with top.

here was now 3 Processes that used all the cpu together.
mount.ntfs+
smbd
and what i dont understand
kodi.bin with 50%

so why is kodi.bin starting to use cpu power when i put files over samba to the NTFS HDD ?

i stopped kodi with sudo service mediacenter stop
and immediately the Speed going to 99mbit/s steady
mount.ntfs+ 70% CPU
smbd 25% CPU

any ideas ?

update:
i could lower the cpu usage to 10% by deactivating the Watchdog addon.
but those 10% still kill the speed to 80-91mbit/s

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Pi 1 or Pi 2 ?

If you are getting 80-90Mbps throughput with Kodi still running you are doing well on a Raspberry Pi given the relatively weak USB controller performance and slow CPU. (Ethernet and USB ports both share the USB bus)

Don’t use the watchdog addon - it causes problems.