Try: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_Storage_Devices#Poor_copy_performan... Other possibility is a different kernel scheduler, more aware of disk load and desktop responsiveness, like linux-ck<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/linux-ck> . On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:01 AM, XeCycle <xecycle@gmail.com> wrote:
Maykel Franco <maykeldebian@gmail.com> writes:
Hi, I when I make a copy of a large file to a 2GB or 8GB usb 3.0 external hard drive, I notice that arch remains slow, frozen ... He struggles to open windows are minimized. I have the kernel:
3.12.2-1-ARCH
Update the whole system to the last. Can you think because it can be?
I also went from the 3.11 kernel
However, debian, ubuntu, opensuse me not pass this ...
It's happened to someone else?
Thanks for everything.
BTW what is the filesystem? I experienced similar problems on an internal disk, of which the filesystem is NTFS. NTFS-3g seems to consume too much CPU in the case of very large writes, and that caused me a hang.
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