[casper] Slow HD write speed

Hello all, We have a ROACH system and have butted against an ever so small problem that I was hoping one of you may be able to give some input on. You may notice that I am new to the mailing list, so hello :-). Please don't hesitate to let me know if I am not conforming to the posting polici

Re: [casper] Slow HD write speed

Hi Kjetil. So, we have a ROACH system that we have set up to boot via usbboot into a full debian etch filesystem. The problem is that we get extremely low write speeds to the disk. In the order of a couple of Mbit/s. The problem might be that your root filesystem is mounted with the 's

Re: [casper] Slow HD write speed

Hi David, Thank you so much for that. It was extremely helpful. We were indeed mounting the drive syncronously, *and* the USB is falling back to OHCI. Following your suggestions and removing the sync flag seems to have helped a bit, so to recompile the kernel next ... cheers Kjetil David G

Re: [casper] Slow HD write speed

: casper@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [casper] Slow HD write speed Hi Kjetil. > > So, we have a ROACH system that we have set up to boot via usbboot > into a full debian etch filesystem. The problem is that we get > extremely low write speeds to the disk. In the order of a couple