Ubuntu
unity package

  1. Bug #1001579
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1001579

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quantumphaze (quantumphazor) wrote :

This has to do with the way Linux kernel has cached file transfers recently (I don't remember it effecting older distros like 8.04). It seems that the file progress indicator is showing the progress of the reading to RAM part, not the writing part. Mounting with -o sync will fix the progress bar but make the transfer itself many times slower.

The bug effects more than just Unity, quite possibly all file progress bars. I see this on Kubuntu 12.04 and Arch Linux

Also
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281270
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41472