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

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

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. --

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

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

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 . .

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

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:

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2009-03-10 Thread Jean-François Fortin Tam
Alright, then it eases my mind. I had kinda lost track of this issue over time with the 100 comments, I guess. Thanks! -- 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