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gvfs package

  1. Bug #197762
  2. Comment #184

Comment 184 for bug 197762

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Martin Scharrer (martin-scharrer-online) wrote : Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

I also suffer from this bug. The transfer speed seems to start high and then falls to kb/s after a short while, see below.
This happens with nautilus, dd, and rsync, etc.

$ rsync -aP * /media/usbmedibig --stats
sending incremental file list
file1
    367,481,854 100% 10.67MB/s 0:00:32 (xfr#1, to-chk=14/15)
file2
    367,362,570 100% 2.18MB/s 0:02:40 (xfr#2, to-chk=13/15)
file3
    367,235,908 100% 1.35MB/s 0:04:19 (xfr#3, to-chk=12/15)
file4
    125,108,224 33% 551.88kB/s 0:07:20 ^C