Public bug reported:
Using VisualWorks to check some of my data files. With over 4 million
files, manual checking is unreliable and slow. When VisualWorks finds an
error I try to use Caja to view the directory and its contents. I
clicked the parent directory I wanted (../../../) and waited, and
waited, and waited. After 8 minutes I decided that Caja had crashed
since every Caja window is frozen. I searched the web for how to kill an
app. The Force Quit Button looks very neat, but installing one does not
work in MATE. I finally found Alt F2 and xkill which works works.
The only background activity was a Terminal command:
cp -anR "/media/robert/4TB Seagate 3/Users" "/media/robert/6TB Seagate 1"
which has been running for 3 days and I assume crashed because I see no new
directories showing up on the target volume.
Apparently Ubuntu MATE 18.04 has a design flaw. It does not handle large
external drives well and is slow as continental drift with a 6TB drive
mounted. Trying to copy 1 TB onto a 6TB drive takes over 6 days. Copying
3 TB from a 4TB to a 4TB takes only two days. This is an obvious design
scale defect. (An algorithm which works with a small set of data may not
work acceptably with a large set of data.)
Please have the developers examine their design and find out where the
flaw is. Have them plug in a 12 TB external USB 3 drive (the largest
commonly available size for desktop computers ) and see incredible
slowdown. (Using Caja to view a directory may take over 3 minutes to
show 247 files.)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: caja 1.20.2-4ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-38.41-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Thu Nov 15 02:57:24 2018
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/caja
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-25 (21 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64
(20180426)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: caja
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: caja (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic
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