I discovered that using the noop scheduler helps. However, they seem to have finally fixed this bug.
I'm on Ubuntu 11.10 with 3.3.0-rc5 and these are my results (copying from an external usb drive): rsync: 733507584 100% 30.89MB/s 0:00:22 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1) Somebody should verify with 3.2 as I guess this will be the kernel that will ship with Precise. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500069 Title: USB file transfer causes system freezes; ops take hours instead of minutes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/500069/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
