Zac Medico wrote: [snip]
>>> >> >>Once the buffer fills up would you expect it to work >>fine at 1.2MB/s? I >>wish I had kept the logs, but it was extremely slow >>(much slower than >>1.2). I was copying a series of ~70MB files over and >>it would work fine >>on about the first 5 or so files before croaking. I >>eventually had to >>kill the job. > > > Hi Alec, > > I suspect Richard is right on. If you run "free" > before your start the copy and then again after the > burst you should see that it simply ate up the > available memory. You should do a real benchmark, > possibly including hdparm. I did try running hdparm at one point, but it seemed to hang. However I I have subsequently run hdparm on the drive connected to another machine and it worked ok. I'll definitely try to find a time to move the drive back to the server and do some more testing. I never thought to check memory usage while I was messing with it. > > If there is really a problem then hopefully you will > see some errors in dmesg or the syslog > (/var/log/messages). You may need to enable debugging > for the filesystem and/or usb-storage driver. > > Zac I'm pasting some output from syslog in another post... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
