Photoshop hangs temporarily using brush tool on large files

When using the brush tool on layer masks on very large files (2-6G), photoshop will stop responding for a minute or two, seemingly randomly. The app has not crashed, but I cannot paint, change brush size, or interact with palettes. I've noticed that the CPU usage is exactly 79% when this happens.
I've had this problem on my older mac - a 2008 8x2.8g mac pro with 24g ram, and my current machine, a 2009 mac pro 8x2.93ghz with 64g memory, using the boot drive (2t with about 1.2t free) as a scratch disk.
After a minute or two, especially if I try to click on a palette, ps comes back to life. Not fatal, but annoying.

Try to improve performance under Photoshop> Preferences> General> Performance

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