Bug#324724: dismally slow throughput to usb flash drive

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 02:55:55PM -0400, Chris Roddy wrote:
> I installed linux-image-2.6.18-1-686 version 2.6.18-3 from sid earlier
> today, rebooted, and tested the exact same pieces of hardware as I was
> using in the initial report. There does not appear to be any significant
> change in write throughput when the device is mounted using the 'sync'
> option: disk writes are at about 46 kB/sec.
> 
> As before, writes are fast when the device is not mounted 'sync', and
> reads are fast in either case.
> 
> Shall I build linux-source-2.6.18 version 2.6.18-3 and try that? Or is
> there something else?

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug
with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html

Cheers,
        Moritz