Thanks kmaterka - your solution also works (both never & madvise worked for me, but madvise still had some freezes).
However, it feels like USB is getting unbearably slow then. So for now I've gone back to setting the dirty_ratio to 1% (defrag = always), which works a little bit better. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/837070 Title: Natty almost freezes on USB transfers / slow transfers / Xorg freeze / caching lunacy To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/837070/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
