F16 unusable while writing to pendrive [SOLVED -- not]

Marko Vojinovic vvmarko at gmail.com
Mon Jan 23 03:25:37 UTC 2012


On Monday 23 January 2012 02:41:07 you wrote:
> Now I'll see how USB is going to work --- a 2.2 GB file is about to be
> written... ;-)

As a side note --- is it normal to have the write-to-USB-flash speed of
2.5 MiB/s (on average)?

I am supposedly using USB2.0 port, and have a 8 GB flash drive. Writing a file 
of 2.2 GB in size takes around 15 minutes to complete. Also that KDE progress-
bar thing is reporting the 2.5 MiB/s value (on average) which fits my 
calculation, but I was wondering if this is the expected performance or not.

I started using USB for GB-sized files only recently, after the DVDRW drive in 
my laptop died, so don't have much experience.

P.S. My machine was quite usable during the write, nothing hung or stalled. 
But then again I may have not actually had enough uptime to hit the "hugepage" 
bug. ;-)

[vmarko at Yoda ~]$ uptime
 03:24:49 up 1 day,  3:23,  4 users,  load average: 0.91, 2.63, 2.08

Best, :-)
Marko




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