Re: USB flash drives on FC3 are incredibly slow!
- From: Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:29:30 GMT
Bill Marcum wrote:
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:04:29 GMT, Charles Sullivan <cwsulliv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I have two small USB flash drives, 64 MB and 128 MB, normally usedTry removing 'sync' from the fstab line.
for temporarily storing a few small files. Today I copied a dozen
files totaling 42 Megabytes to the 64 MB drive on my Fedora Core 3
box and was astounded to find it took around 45 Minutes. I tried
it with the 128 MB drive and the same job took 15 Minutes.
By comparison, the same copy job to the 128 MB drive under either
Windows XP or my old, slow Red Hat 9 box takes about 15-20 Seconds.
What could be wrong on the FC3 box to make it so slow? It's a
3 GHz Pentium 4 system with USB 2 ports. The Red Hat 9 box is only a 450 MHz Pentium 2 system with USB 1 ports.
On the FC3 system, the flash drive automatically mounts when plugged
in and the entry: /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk vfat
pamconsole,exec,noauto,iocharset=utf8,noatime,sync,managed 0 0
appears in /etc/fstab.
I would also update to FC5, as FC3 and 4 are both EOL'd and are only now supported via the Fedora Legacy folks for security and bug fixes.
There have been notable improvements in HAL and udev since FC3 was released.
BTW, RH9 will be without any support beyond the end of the year, with final bug reports accepted until October 1 via the Fedora Legacy folks.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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