Re: USB: KDE faster than GNOME faster than TERMINAL ??!!
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:49:50AM +0100, Christophe Combelles wrote:
> First try, with obs=512, => even worse:
>
> $ time dd if=/home/ccomb/tutorial.pdf of=/mnt/IntelligentStick/tutorial.pdf
> obs=512
> 3795+1 enregistrements lus.
> 3795+1 enregistrements ?crits.
> 1943399 bytes transferred in 208,545626 seconds (9319 bytes/sec)
>
> real 3m28.609s
> user 0m0.010s
> sys 0m0.108s
That was about what I got aswell. In theory it should only take a few
seconds for a 2Mb file.
>
> Second try, with obs=8192 => Nothing happens, impossible to kill, reboot
> mandatory!!!
I've had this happen to me when my parallel zip drive 'crashed' on a bad
disk. The process never exited out of kernel mode and hence never
got the signal - or so I assume.
Why its happening here is anyone's guess. Sounds like a bug with the
drive - possibly a bug in the kernel. I'm running 2.4.25. I don't think
2.6 works fully re USB just yet, reading posts on this list but its very
possible that I'm wrong. Which kernel are you running?
Just try a smaller number like 1024 or 2048. I can't really advise
anything else. Someone else might have a more useful suggestion.
Brian
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