[Bug 541937] Re: copying files to an usb pandrive is slow and slows down in time (Lucid Lynx)

2010-04-20 Thread Theodore Ts'o
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 197762 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 No, no, no! Please, can we not tell people to dogpile onto bug #197762? That bug is so dogpiled as to be useless. We need to have separate bugs for separate performance problems, instead of assuming

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB flash key (pendrive) or USB HDD are slowing down with time

2010-04-20 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Comment which I added to bug #541937: No, no, no! Please, can we not tell people to dogpile onto bug #197762? That bug is so dogpiled as to be useless. We need to have separate bugs for separate performance problems, instead of assuming that all reported performance problems with USB

Re: [Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB flash key (pendrive) or USB HDD are slowing down with time

2010-04-20 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:06:13PM -, Jeremy Foshee wrote: Ted, I couldn't agree more. I'm not sure I fall into what you would call someone official in Ubuntu, but I am the Kernel Bug Triager. My stance on these is to have reporters, with any deviation from the reported bug they

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB flash key (pendrive) or USB HDD are slowing down with time

2010-03-31 Thread Theodore Ts'o
@allisterbrizan, Please, do the investigation, and then open a new bug!!! Your issue with dd clones is completely different from kwstas tsob's problem in #256 which had to do with source file fragmentation because of bittorrent. You see? Both are performance problems, and both are complete

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB flash key (pendrive) or USB HDD are slowing down with time

2010-03-30 Thread Theodore Ts'o
i had similar issues but also when i was trying to copy a file(around 50-700mb or larger) from my local hdd to another folder of the same hdd!!! so what i found out was that this was happening only in files that i had downloaded with transmission! What file system were you using on your hdd,

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

2009-12-14 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Botond, Again, I would ask that you take a look at the procedures found here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiskPerformance ... and then open another bug, complete with details of kernel version, dstat -D dev when doing a dd if=/dev/zero of=dev bs=32k, and then the output of dmesg | grep

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

2009-07-15 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 08:45:56PM -0700, Ron Brogden wrote: Theodore, if I may ask you - are you just another random Linux user here or are you actually officially associated with Ubuntu in a support role? I see that you are associated with IBM, have written some file system utilities and

Re: [Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

2009-07-15 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:33:07AM -, kulight wrote: I've just remembered why the user base of Linux is so small I do actually expect my mechanic to find and fix what's wrong with my car when I just tell him it won't start And I don’t care if it's the engine the battery or the radiator

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

2009-07-14 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Eric, The problem is that your problem may be very different from other peoples' problem. First of all, in your test, you are continually dirtying the page cache with cp /dev/zero /mnt/bigfile.This brings in filesystem effects, and VM effects, and so it's hard to tell what is actually going

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

2009-07-14 Thread Theodore Ts'o
jamesnmandy, For someone who 'does not have the time to file a proper bug report', you seem to have plenty of time to write notes complaining about the bug. Seriously --- if you aren't willing to help determine the problem --- and you like GUI solutions --- maybe you should just go back to

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

2009-05-20 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Night64: No, you're using usb-storage device driver for both the pendrive and the ipod.The messages that you quoted as coming from the ipod just means that the usb-storage module had gotten unloaded, and when it was loaded as a module, it prints those lines to the kernel log. The fact that

Re: [Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

2009-05-20 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 08:48:34PM -, Night64 wrote: Thanks for the info, Ts'o. But your comment about libusual caught my eye. In Ubuntu 9.04 this module still shows up, right? [81601.434729] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual Oops, sorry, that's what I get for not

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

2009-05-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Ulrich --- if you have time to try to do more tests, may I gently suggest that you start a new Launchpad bug?Drop a pointer from in this launchpad bug number to the new one, but let's do all of the experimentation on a new launchpad bug. There are a couple of reasons for this: (1)

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

2009-05-18 Thread Theodore Ts'o
For people who are seeing this --- try booting the kernel with the mem= command line option and see if this makes a difference. For example if you have 4 gigs of memory, try using mem=1G; if you have a gig of memory, try using mem=512M. Does this change how big the file needs to be before you

[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

2009-05-18 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Something else to try; I would suggest using dstat with the -D option (i.e, dstat -D sda,sdb) or iostat 1 (although I find dstat to be a bit more user friendly) to measure I/O transfer rates. I would recommend using dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/disk/test.img bs=32k to measure the transfer rates,