Comment 177 for bug 197762

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Tim Gardner (timg-tpi) wrote : Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

There are 2 changes in recent Karmic kernels that should help:

2.6.31-10.35:
  * [Config] Set default I/O scheduler to DEADLINE
    CFQ seems to have some load related problems which are often exacerbated by sreadahead.
    - LP: #381300

2.6.31-11.38
  * sched: Disable NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS for now
    - LP: #436342