Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Notebook freeze and slow when copy big files to external usb

On 04.12.13 at 12:08, Maykel Franco wrote:

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.

See ArchWiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Maximizing_Performance#Tuning_kernel_pa... Even USB 3 is slow compared to RAM... See also this article on LWN for more information: http://lwn.net/Articles/572911/