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

2010-04-20 Thread Shawn Reist
I have been following this post for some time. I have installed Debian Lenny and started using that as a primary system and the Ubuntu system I have I tinker with. Call me a rebel or such.. but I have noticed differences on how the systems' (Ubuntu and Debian) handle file transfers. I am not

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

2009-12-14 Thread rom85
this problem lasts for me since 8.04 when i just started using linux. i have it by now and none of the proposed solutions helped -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs,

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

2009-12-14 Thread uvaio
2.6.31-16-generic #53-Ubuntu x86_64 Did not fix anything for me ;o( I did some further testing and the problem appears to be related to per file transfer and also to USB stick you use. I did test with 1. Kingston micro SD HC 8GB memory card using with mini usb card reader. trasfered about

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

2009-12-14 Thread sbec67
I also did some Tests... Copying file to a MP3 Player ( FS MSDOS ) i had similar Problems as described above. Copying Files to a external USB Hardisc ( FS EXT3 ) I don't see such problems. Maybe the coses come from different File Systems ? Regards Sbec -- file transfers on USB disk are very

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

2009-12-14 Thread Angelos Vlassopoulos
I have been following this bug report for a long time now and here is some advice to the people that have only recently begun to post here. This bug has hundreds of postings and no reasonable person could possible read all of them in order to start fixing something. Through time it has become

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

2009-12-14 Thread Digital5700
sbec67: The difference isn't the file systems, it's that hard drives are treated differently to USB sticks. As I wrote before... copying to external drives gives me 15MB/s sustained. -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug

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

2009-12-14 Thread Jeff Wallace
I can concur with Digital5700. My 1TB external drive has no performance issues, but my 8GB flash drive has trouble getting a 700MB file onto it in a reasonable amount of time. -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification

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

2009-12-14 Thread Carlos M
After playing around with the US mount options in my jaunty 64, I still see this issue. In my case, I think this is the result of using ubuntu on an NTFS USB drive: If I copy and delete large files (4-8GB) in Jaunty, the USB drive gets fragmented (expectedly so). If I plug this device to my

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

2009-12-14 Thread Botond Szász
I have done some quick testing. I formatted my Kingston DataTraveler G2 16GB drive as a FAT32, FAT32 (lba), EXT2, EXT3 disk one at a time and tried copying over a file little over 1GB in size. I monitored the actual disk operations with dstat. What I have found is that the first 100 - 200MB for

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

2009-12-14 Thread Botond Szász
One more thing... I don't know if this is related, but whenever I try to Safely remove the disk I always got this error: Unable to stop drive Error detaching: helper exited with exit code 1: sense buffer empty Error SYNCHRONIZE CACHE for /dev/sdb: Success start stop unit: transport:

[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

2009-12-13 Thread sbec67
i have the same problem here read this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1306333 people are getting angry... i think this Problem should be fixed with a Bug Fix and not within next release Kind regards Sbec -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow

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

2009-12-10 Thread mlx
Latest kernel update (2.6.31-16-generic #53-Ubuntu x86_64) fixed my problem. -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing

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

2009-12-10 Thread Filofel
2.6.31-16-generic #53-Ubuntu x86_64 fixed my problem too. -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

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

2009-12-09 Thread Filofel
Same problem here copying 100MB from the disk to an USB key using Nautilus (drag n drop from Nautilus to Nautilus). During the copy, the gnome desktop is mostly frozen, the copy progress bar only appears after after *minutes* and once appeared, is hardly refreshed at all before the end of the

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

2009-12-07 Thread uvaio
I see this bug is very old but still here and painful for many people, is there anything we can do? provide some more info? is there anyone looking at it? Was this problem understood already? I think priority should be risen, what should we do when we need to take larger file on USB? what is

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

2009-12-07 Thread mlx
I think the bug along with the reports needs to be split into: kernel issues - when even reading from/writing to the block device with hdparm/dd is unreasonably slow block filesystem issues - testing the above works,but copying files to/from the filesystem (preferably from something not impacted

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

2009-12-03 Thread boratsuckdev
I am using Karmicl, kernel 2.6.31 -15 -generic on my laptop. The time that takes to transfer files to my USB drives takes almost 20 times more than it used to take in Jaunty. Sometimes after waiting for a long time of transfering it will simply give a error message or the file will simply will not

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

2009-12-02 Thread Roozbeh Gholizadeh
Anything new on this bug? i am having this issue with my usb : Bus 001 Device 007: ID 058f:6387 Alcor Micro Corp. Transcend JetFlash Flash Drive copying 170mg file after 70% tends to slow down.using krusador and also natilus. i am willing to provide any other info if required. using ubuntu 9.10

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

2009-11-26 Thread Shawn Reist
I do not see this option in karmic Carlos M wrote: Sergey Once the USB thumbdrive is mounted, you can right-click on its desktop icon and select Properties. From there you will see the Volume tab and specify the mount options Carlos M -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow

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

2009-11-26 Thread Sergey V. Udaltsov
I do not see this option in karmic, either -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

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

2009-11-25 Thread Sergey V. Udaltsov
Carlos, where did you find USB-Properties-Volume-Mount menu? -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

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

2009-11-25 Thread Carlos M
Sergey Once the USB thumbdrive is mounted, you can right-click on its desktop icon and select Properties. From there you will see the Volume tab and specify the mount options Carlos M -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug

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

2009-11-22 Thread Carlos M
From what I googled, it appears the 'noatime' option implies 'nodiratime' as well. I was able to specify this option in the USB-Properties-Volume-Mount options. It seemed to work when I transfered two 4.2GB movies but I'll keep an eye on it -- I'm not sure it's fixed in my case. Also, this

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

2009-11-22 Thread mlx
@ Luis (#198): can you please post/link to the changes made to fstab? I have no lines in fstab for USB drives, as DeviceKit is supposed to take care of that. @everyone having problems and still following: how many of you tried to bypass the filesystem by using dd or hdparm -t? Running Karmic

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

2009-11-21 Thread Shawn Reist
** Attachment added: Data sheet.ods http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35911171/Data%20sheet.ods -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. --

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

2009-11-21 Thread Shawn Reist
Thanks Ulrich, I have started to log items and placed the data in a ODS file posted above. Message and attachment did not go through together. I started with data being written to a .txt file to home directory. . . changed to the /dev/shm directory so data written to the file would not conflict

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

2009-11-20 Thread Luis Lobo
I had this problem, and after reading all this comments, i decided to give it a try to the reconfiguration of fstab I went from 4 MB to a steady 30MB (this is the REAL max throughput of a USB device in USB 2.0) It worked perfectly. Also, setting my SATA Ports to use 32 bit and it made it a

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

2009-11-18 Thread Ulrich Lukas
Dear Shawn, dstat does essentially that. Default is one line of output every second, which means the output equals the MiB/sec throughput of your device. Try dstat -D sda,sdb. You can also adjust the delay; see the manual page. -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow

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

2009-11-17 Thread Bais
At this moment, the only way to survive at this bug is open an ftp or sftp connection in local host and copy files with filezilla or similar client O_O. It's an absurd solution, I know, but the only one that not freeze my work. by BAIS 2009/11/8 Dexter pogany.tamas+...@gmail.com

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

2009-11-17 Thread rom85
2 BAIS: this doesn't help for my situation also. when copying by filezilla first 50mb are copied quite fast, but after that great slowdown as if it was copied from hdd. -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because

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

2009-11-17 Thread Shawn Reist
I will agree the FTP does not work for me either. the best thing for myself was to do a reboot. transfers are good for the first hour or two... then get mediocre and after a day possibly two... abysmal. rom85 wrote: 2 BAIS: this doesn't help for my situation also. when copying by filezilla

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

2009-11-17 Thread Denis Hamann
I have the same problem, but rebooting doesnt help me. -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

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

2009-11-17 Thread Bais
Strange I used this method for gigas and gigas and I continued to work well, I have kubuntu 9.04 daily updated. I'm using server kernel, I don't know why :) Probably for some application I've installed for testing. I have a dream... this software on linux -- www.killprog.com Killcopy ! best file

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

2009-11-17 Thread Shawn Reist
I asked this some where but maybe not here... I can't program, but is it possible to gather data via a script that would put data into a sort of quasi time line format with certain data appended to it.. i.e start copy. time bytes written rate . time bytes written rate . .

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

2009-11-08 Thread Dexter
Bug confirmed on Karmic Koala -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

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

2009-11-04 Thread rom85
I have tried several PCs. They were based upon Intel chipsets such as G33/31, i865, i915, i945 all with integrated video used. All of them had Celeron proccessors on board, 512MM of RAM and SATA 80GB drives. Tested versions of Ubuntu were 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10. None of them worked good, talking

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

2009-10-31 Thread Sebastien Bacher
those comments are not constructive could you restain from adding such notes there? -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs

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

2009-10-31 Thread Shawn Reist
Hello, I am not a programmer and not that versed on how things in Linux work; still quite Green. Can a program be made to monitor a file transfer. i.e. track the progress. there is something that is happening in the background. The best file transfers I have is just after a reboot of the

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

2009-10-30 Thread Sigmund Baginov
** Tags added: karmic -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

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

2009-10-30 Thread jamesnmandy
LOL, same patch applied here, having something as basc as USB communications breaking down essentially breaks the entire OS for most people, i really wanted Ubuntu to be my last OS but this bug killed it On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Ulrich Lukas stellplatz-nr@datenparkplatz.de wrote:

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

2009-10-29 Thread Martin Scharrer
I also suffer from this bug. The transfer speed seems to start high and then falls to kb/s after a short while, see below. This happens with nautilus, dd, and rsync, etc. $ rsync -aP * /media/usbmedibig --stats sending incremental file list file1 367,481,854 100% 10.67MB/s0:00:32

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

2009-10-29 Thread Ulrich Lukas
Martin and Murz, maybe you can get help if you open up an individual, detailed bug report. Given that this 184-message bug report is over one and a half year old, I'm afraid adding comments here does not help. This bugfix works, I've just tested it:

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

2009-10-27 Thread Murz
Confirm this problem in Kubuntu Karmic RC amd64 fresh install: transfering a big file (more that 600 mb) to the USB disk is very slow and get about 100% of CPU usage (on AMD Athlon(tm) 7550 Dual-Core Processor with 4gb of RAM) all the copying time. Can I help with some additional debug info?

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

2009-10-26 Thread Sebastien Bacher
trying to rsync a windows 7 install dvd the issue seems different from a speed one, you should open a new bug rather than commenting there... -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

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

2009-10-26 Thread Mikael Frykholm
I got the same slowness when trying dd to the same stick. It was fast at first and gradually got slower (according to kill -USR1 dd) and ended up at about 300k/s. -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you

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

2009-10-24 Thread Mikael Frykholm
I got this in dmesg when trying to rsync a windows 7 install dvd to a 4G flash drive: [227761.643001] INFO: task pdflush:19635 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [227761.643010] echo 0 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs disables this message. [227761.643016] pdflush D

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

2009-10-24 Thread Mikael Frykholm
I can reproduce this every time, please tell me what kind of debug info you need. -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs

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

2009-10-10 Thread lebb
In Karmic transfering a file to the USB disk it is a slight bit faster compared to Jaunty, but moving a big file it is still painfully slow. -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

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

2009-10-02 Thread Tim Gardner
There are 2 changes in recent Karmic kernels that should help: 2.6.31-10.35: * [Config] Set default I/O scheduler to DEADLINE CFQ seems to have some load related problems which are often exacerbated by sreadahead. - LP: #381300 2.6.31-11.38 * sched: Disable NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS for now

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

2009-10-02 Thread Leann Ogasawara
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Medium ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Triaged ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ubuntu Kernel Team (ubuntu-kernel-team) = (unassigned) -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow

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

2009-09-01 Thread Ace Suares
Luckily, the extermely slow USB transfer rate gives me ample time to enjoy the 173 comments in this bug report. Whoooppeee! -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs,

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

2009-08-02 Thread Sergey V. Udaltsov
Same issue with Corsaire Voyager Mini 16G. Works reasonably fast under WinVista -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs

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

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

2009-07-15 Thread Night64
, 2009 4:43 PM To: kuli...@afikim.org.il Subject: [Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow 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

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 epv
(cp bigfile /media/disk/ ) ; sleep 10 ; time echo foo /media/disk/bar If the time is really in seconds as you seem to suggest it is interesting I'd say. On the other hand, if what you describe is due the low performance of the underlying device then it is expected behaviour (the low

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

2009-07-14 Thread jamesnmandy
This is completely not flamebait, promise, I have been doing nothing but bragging on the latest build of Ubuntu, but I loaded Windows 7 back on this same exact machine, only difference was the OS, and suddenly I get transfer speeds of 25Mb/s or higher consistently even on extremely large

[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

2009-07-14 Thread epv
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 01:55:49AM -, Theodore Ts'o wrote: Eric, The problem is that your problem may be very different

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

2009-06-25 Thread Angelos Vlassopoulos
I ran some tests and found out that my USB flash disk is significantly slower when it is formatted as FAT32, compared to ext3. I have created a new bug, which can be found here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/392089 -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow

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

2009-06-24 Thread Ulrich Lukas
Who wants my Hardware? Since I can't use my USB drive (I cancelled the last attempt to copy 6GiB after more than one hour and less than 10%): Whoever wants to do further testing or bugfixing: You get my 16-GiB USB pen drive for for free! I can send it to you worldwide in a cushioned envelope.

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

2009-06-11 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
ons, 10 06 2009 kl. 22:38 +, skrev jamesnmandy: Hiding behind a proper bug request gets us nowhere. And you posting useless information in this bug does? It's not working like it is supposed to and that's painfully obvious. And it should be painfully obvious by now that the issue cannot

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

2009-06-11 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/334914/comments/30 [2] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiskPerformance -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a

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

2009-06-10 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
man, 08 06 2009 kl. 20:14 +, skrev epv: This isn't normal behavior. Obviously it behaves fine while all writes are going to buffer cache, but once it tries to write it out to the device, wait times on the partition shoot up to 30sec or more, and all processes trying to touch the usb disk

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

2009-06-10 Thread jamesnmandy
Hiding behind a proper bug request gets us nowhere. Additionally, I do not have the time to do the research to figure out how to even begin to file a proper bug report. I'm one of thoseyou know, former Windows users, who do everything with a GUI and if there's not a double click or

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

2009-06-09 Thread jamesnmandy
Not sure if this has been mentioned or not, but I noticed today that performance is much much better when copying directories to directories vs. copying a file to a directory. For example, I had a directory on my desktop, with three subdirectories, each with two files in them. When I right-click

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

2009-06-09 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:54 PM, jamesnmandy jamesnma...@gmail.com wrote: There's no way all these people are seeing this behaviour because they all have vastly different yet commonly crappy hardware. The same exact hardware works great under the other OS. It's 100% a *nix issue and

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

2009-06-08 Thread epv
This isn't normal behavior. Obviously it behaves fine while all writes are going to buffer cache, but once it tries to write it out to the device, wait times on the partition shoot up to 30sec or more, and all processes trying to touch the usb disk block practically forever. Sysstat shows it as

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

2009-06-08 Thread jamesnmandy
There's no way all these people are seeing this behaviour because they all have vastly different yet commonly crappy hardware. The same exact hardware works great under the other OS. It's 100% a *nix issue and it's 100% in the software. That's painfully obvious. I wish this would get fixed

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

2009-05-20 Thread MVDHR
I can reproduce on my Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit so far. -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

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

2009-05-20 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
MVDHR, and why should we care? This bug has been open for a year and 50 people have commented here, so news would be that the problem actually went away. You give no information that helps further debug the issue, please read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiskPerformance and diagnose your

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

2009-05-20 Thread Night64
Testing with a Kingston DataTraveler on 2.6.27-14-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 9.04. copying from /dev/zero robe...@roberto-desktop:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/KINGSTON16/test-file bs=512 1038321+0 registros entrando 1038321+0 registros saindo 531620352 byte (532 MB) copiados, 18,2775 s, 29,1 MB/s A

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

2009-05-20 Thread Night64
** Attachment added: dmesg from blazing fast ipod http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26989377/dmesgipod.txt -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug

[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

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

2009-05-20 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
Night64, flash devices are slow and the only reason the transfer appears to be fast at the beginning is that data is written to OS memory and then later to disk. Use dstat to monitor disk performance as explained on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiskPerformance, And open new bug reports

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

2009-05-20 Thread Night64
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 Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware. Sent from Brasilia, DF,

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 Neil Burlock
I did have a long list of tests to attach here, but using dstat over the last couple of hours it appears that one of my drives that is connected via eSATA might be faulty. Until last week when I purchased a new 640GB I was using it (WD 500GB ext4) as my desktop drive and prior to that as my

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

2009-05-19 Thread Ulrich Lukas
System running Ubuntu Jaunty AMD64, vanilla 2.6.29.1. KDE4.2, two terminal windows, no other graphical applications. I created two test files of identical size with random data and copied to the USB pendrive, once on a freshly rebooted system, and once after I first experienced a slowdown while

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

2009-05-19 Thread Ulrich Lukas
** Attachment added: Output of dstat -D sda,sdb, showing expected performance http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26929198/dstat-D.OK.850-MiB-random-data.txt -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a

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

2009-05-19 Thread Ulrich Lukas
** Attachment added: Output of dstat -D sda,sdb, showing slowdown http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26929209/dstat-D.slow.850-MiB-random-data.txt -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[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

2009-05-19 Thread Robert Fekete
Hi, I am experiencing a similar problem on a fresh jaunty install when copying files to an USB hdd. I do not even need to transfer large files, transferring around a few mp3-s kills the transfer rate in a few seconds. Theodore-- I will try to get some time and start collecting the info you

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

2009-05-19 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
So, I believe I am the one Theodore refered to as venting how the useless Ubuntu bug reports are. While they really are, I also really want to help. So, following Theodore's suggestion I've started https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiskPerformance on the Ubuntu Wiki. It is pretty basic right now,

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

2009-05-18 Thread Neil Burlock
No, it's not Ubuntu specific and Canonical didn't cause it. Right now I'm copying between two SATA drives, connected to my PC via eSATA. So far a lousy 600MB has been copied and I'm already down to 5MB/s and falling. Here is what I know about the problem: It affects ALL hardware. It affects

[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,

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

2009-05-18 Thread Neil Burlock
Theodore, thanks for the info. I don't have a lot of time this morning before work, but I was able to run one test which illustrates the problem. In the attached dstat output, I copied 3.4GB between two eSATA HDD. It started off fast (as usual), but by the time the copy finished the dialog was

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

2009-05-18 Thread Neil Burlock
Forgot to mention, that dstat is for the destination drive only. I'm also not seeing as much of a slowdown if I copy from the source to the internal drive, then to the destination drive. -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug

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

2009-05-17 Thread psypher
I wil have to disagree with about ram. busy trying to clone my root partition with dd to a usb hard drive. booted with jaunty 32bit live cd and started the process with dd if=/dev/sda3 of=/media/disk/image.img conv=sync,noerror bs=64K. 1st 10GB flew by at 25-30MB/s then started slowing down to

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

2009-05-17 Thread psypher
backup is now at 64GB and has slowed down to 500KB/s and I will have to stop it. Usb is now officially a completely useless backup tool on linux. just stopped it, dd claims 65GB has been copied avg 1.5MB/s like to mention that this has always been a very intermittent issue. sometimes works fine

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

2009-05-17 Thread Sebastian Riebel
Hello, this bug isn't ubuntu specific I think. I can reproduce this problem with Debian 3.1/4.0/5.0 and linux 2.6.29 too. Can you try it with Ubuntu 6.06 again? There doesn't affects me this problem... -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You

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

2009-05-08 Thread Kurt De Smet
Hi Lucas, I noticed everything goes fine until the memory gets full, then starts the swapping and the slowdown. It's like the memory is used as buffer, when that runs out it uses the virtual memory on the HD. No problem with small sizes that fit the memory but when you select 100 GB at once ...

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

2009-05-07 Thread Kurt De Smet
I had the same problem, needed to backup 200+ GB to a USB HD due to a hardware upgrade. Then I remembered the board had a strange bios reset recently (hence the upgrade) so I checked and set the bios SATA configuration back from IDE to AHCI (My mobo has 3 possible settings IDE, RAID and AHCI). Now

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

2009-05-07 Thread Ulrich Lukas
Hi Kurt, albeit the AHCI-mode enables the use of Native Command Queueing (NCQ) for some mainboards, I somehow doubt that this has to do with the USB issue. Especially because of the swapping you reported which IMO has nothing to do with the USB speed issues reported before. -- file transfers

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

2009-05-04 Thread Pavol Klačanský
Same problem here, I have Thinkpad T500, starting speed was about 15 MB/s and at the end only about 3 MB/s, size of transfered file is 3,2 GB dist: jaunty 64 bit -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are

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

2009-04-22 Thread Sebastian Riebel
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

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