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

2010-01-24 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
RishiRamraj: You can see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiskPerformance for general advice on testing performance of a disk and reporting your issue. Your snip from dmesg tells that you plugged in a USB 2.0 device, but that is about what can be said from that information, so further

[Bug 500069] Re: since Ubuntu karmic Filetransfer to some USB Drives got realy slow

2010-01-24 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 197762 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 sbec67: Have you tried your device with another OS with different performance results? From your lsusb output is does not look like your device is listed? Was it plugged in when you ran lsusb? If that

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

2009-12-23 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
søn, 20 12 2009 kl. 20:34 +, skrev Przemysław Kulczycki: So it seems that some subsystem invoked by Gnome (hal? udev? gvfs?) is responsible for the slowdown. Please tell me if this is relevant to this bug or should I file a new one? Everyone should open new reports, you should too. Your

Re: [Bug 337830] Re: [Jaunty] Slow transfer rate writing to automounted usb drives

2009-06-11 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
tor, 11 06 2009 kl. 01:16 +, skrev Matt Joiner: I get this same effect, slowing after about 200MB, on an internal NTFS drive. This is just what the Nautilus shows high transfer rate at beginning of transfer but then slows down part of [1] describes right? Please read that page and please

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 Bugs, which is subscribed

RE: [Bug 334914] Re: [jaunty] usb file transfer is very very slow

2009-06-10 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
ons, 10 06 2009 kl. 09:26 +, skrev kulight: This is not an issue of using usb 1 My device and port are both usb 2 But they are still used in USB 1.1 mode, see your dmesg that says new full speed USB device and lsusb that shows the USB drive is on a bus with a 1.1 device (this is very easy

[Bug 334914] Re: [jaunty] usb file transfer is very very slow

2009-06-09 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
alex123: Cool, anything in particular that made you suspect a BIOS bug? I guess everything is fine for your system then. kulight: We'd still like to hear whether this is simply an issue of USB 1.1 being used. -- [jaunty] usb file transfer is very very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/334914

[Bug 320526] Re: jaunty 2.6.28 freezes on pcmcia detection during boot

2009-06-09 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
Interesting. So, either a vanilla/upstream 2.6.24 does not have the problem, or something in your config makes the problem go away. PCMCIA seems to generally be enabled in your config, but it would probably be good to test 2.6.24 with a config as close to Ubuntu's edition of 2.6.24. Do you still

[Bug 228746] Re: USB stops working after a while

2009-06-09 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
d3mia7: Though I only had a quick glance at your oops, I fail to see how your problem is similar to the one reported by Beata. You should file a new bug if it is a different problem. -- USB stops working after a while https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228746 You received this bug notification

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

2009-06-09 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

2009-06-09 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 320526] Re: jaunty 2.6.28 freezes on pcmcia detection during boot

2009-05-26 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
Good, you should see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/GitKernelBuild this page for how to checkout the sources from git and build a kernel in general. It should be straigthforward to follow, but just ask if you have any questions. After step 3, you should do the following before going to step

[Bug 372232] Re: kernel 2.6.28 from 2.6.27 prevents Alcor reader working

2009-05-26 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
Thanks Gary. I think this problem should be easy to solve for others that know more about automatic loading of modules than I do, so for the sake of making it possible for others to skip right to working on a solution, can you please verify that the following is correct? The executive summary is

[Bug 320526] Re: jaunty 2.6.28 freezes on pcmcia detection during boot

2009-05-26 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
A short addendum, the instructions for using the script were incomplete and should have been wget http://rostedt.homelinux.com/code/streamline_config.pl cp .config config.backup perl streamline_config.pl new_config mv new_config .config make oldconfig -- jaunty 2.6.28 freezes on pcmcia

[Bug 341239] Re: kill(2) succeeds when no process corresponds to the given PID

2009-05-26 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
. If anybody feel like picking up the discussion on LKML they are of course welcome. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Simon Holm Thøgersen (odie-cs) ** Changed in: linux Status: New = Invalid ** Changed

[Bug 247819] Re: Ricoh R5C822 SDHC Card reader I/O errors

2009-05-21 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
Richard Hull, you should work this out together with Pierre Ossman and the rest of the mmc and sdhci developers. You already know how to compile your own kernel so I don't think there should be any problems. I'd suggest you start by checking out the lastest upstream kernel from git and try that.

[Bug 372232] Re: kernel 2.6.28 from 2.6.27 prevents Alcor reader working

2009-05-21 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
Gary, does it work if you manually modprobe usb-storage and possibly other related modules? -- kernel 2.6.28 from 2.6.27 prevents Alcor reader working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/372232 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 290911] Re: Hardy kernel update kills suspend-to-disk

2009-05-21 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
Hi Sven-Ola, if you still experience the problem and is interested in a solution, I think you should try building the latest upstream kernel yourself, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/GitKernelBuild. Provided the problem still exists I think you should report the problem upstream, since it

[Bug 293346] Re: [i945gme] [Hardy] 3D Graphic stop working after resume and resolution change

2009-05-21 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
Uhm, according to the upstream bug it seems that Ubuntu has been made aware of a fix. See from comment #7 and down in upstream report. Have this made it into the updates for Hardy and can this bug be closed? -- [i945gme] [Hardy] 3D Graphic stop working after resume and resolution change

[Bug 306611] Re: Network disabled when resuming from hibernate on Dell M1330

2009-05-21 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
Leann, seems to be -EREPORTERGONE, so just close this? -- Network disabled when resuming from hibernate on Dell M1330 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306611 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 298117] Re: [regression] Wakeup from Suspend to Disk does not work on ThinkPad T40 in Intrepid

2009-05-21 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
Florian and Jukka, if you still want to pursue a solution to this issue, I've got a couple of suggestions to try. The first is to capture the output of a failing resume with netconsole, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Netconsole. Since it is a regression (for Florian at least) it might

[Bug 350003] Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000019

2009-05-21 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
Hi Taylor, so the oops this is present with 2.6.29 but not 2.6.29.1? I guess you still want the fix into the ubuntu kernel, so I had a look at the patches that went into 2.6.29.1. I couldn't find an obvious candidate, but I can help you bisect the patches and compile a list of candidates I find

[Bug 341239] Re: kill(2) succeeds when no process corresponds to the given PID

2009-05-21 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
Jean-Paul and Glyph, by which standard or documentation do you believe the current behaviour is incorrect? My guess is that the behaviour is completely intentional, but if documentation says otherwise or can be clarified I'm sure we can work something out. -- kill(2) succeeds when no process

[Bug 320526] Re: jaunty 2.6.28 freezes on pcmcia detection during boot

2009-05-21 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
Since Gusty was fine and Hardy was not, we might be able to find the patch that introduced the bug by simply inspecting the changes that went in between 2.6.22 and 2.6.24. git log v2.6.22..v2.6.24 drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c only reveals one patch, so that would be very interesting to revert. Even

[Bug 228746] Re: USB stops working after a while

2009-05-21 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
Jim, it almost sounded like you had a fix to this problem, any updates? Perhaps your findings should simply be sent to linux-usb-devel or filed on bugzilla.kernel.org? -- USB stops working after a while https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228746 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 341239] Re: kill(2) succeeds when no process corresponds to the given PID

2009-05-21 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
I took this question to the linux kernel mailing list with Jean-Paul CC'ed and I think you guys should take discussion there and close this bug appropriately afterwards. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/21/275. -- kill(2) succeeds when no process corresponds to the given PID

[Bug 337830] Re: [Jaunty] Slow transfer rate writing to automounted usb drives

2009-05-20 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
Hi Diaa, can you provide us with the mount options for the automatic and manual mount cases? I.e. grep device /proc/mounts It would also be nice with a dstat trace of the data written to disk for both cases, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiskPerformance or Theodore's comments in

[Bug 334914] Re: [jaunty] usb file transfer is very very slow

2009-05-20 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
kulight, assuming that you still experience the slow transfer and the problem with the flood of messages in dmesg is solved, can you provide us with a dstat trace as described on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiskPerformance ? -- [jaunty] usb file transfer is very very slow

[Bug 334914] Re: [jaunty] usb file transfer is very very slow

2009-05-20 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
BTW it seems like you have connected your USB stick to a USB 1.1 port, so that could certainly explain why performance might not be as expected. It would still be useful to get the dstat trace as mentioned before. You can tell by a look at the output of just a simple lsusb that shows the flash

[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 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

[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,