Re: USB: KDE faster than GNOME faster than TERMINAL ??!!

2004-03-19 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:49:50AM +0100, Christophe Combelles wrote: > First try, with obs=512, => even worse: > > $ time dd if=/home/ccomb/tutorial.pdf of=/mnt/IntelligentStick/tutorial.pdf > obs=512 > 3795+1 enregistrements lus. > 3795+1 enregistrements ?crits. > 1943399 bytes transferred in 2

Re: USB: KDE faster than GNOME faster than TERMINAL ??!!

2004-03-18 Thread Christophe Combelles
Brian Brazil wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:01:14PM +0100, Christophe Combelles wrote: Something very strange : I have done a test with a small USB1 memory key (i-stick). I copy a 1.9 MB file from the hard drive to the USB mass storage device, with three different methods: 1) from KDE with Ko

Re: USB: KDE faster than GNOME faster than TERMINAL ??!!

2004-03-18 Thread Christophe Combelles
it is already mouted with sync, see the fstab line: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt/IntelligentStick auto sync,user,noauto,rw,iocharset=utf8 0 0 When KDE has finished copying the file, unmounting can be done with no delay. The file is really copied. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I belie

Re: USB: KDE faster than GNOME faster than TERMINAL ??!!

2004-03-18 Thread edward
I believe the problem is to do with synchronos writing to the device. It probably means that KDE is reporting the time for the drive to report that it has copied files. Try adding sync to the fstab, and then see what happens. Edward > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:01:14PM +0100, Christophe Combelles

Re: USB: KDE faster than GNOME faster than TERMINAL ??!!

2004-03-18 Thread Brian Brazil
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:01:14PM +0100, Christophe Combelles wrote: > Something very strange : > > I have done a test with a small USB1 memory key (i-stick). > > I copy a 1.9 MB file from the hard drive to the USB mass storage device, > with three different methods: > > 1) from KDE with Konque

USB: KDE faster than GNOME faster than TERMINAL ??!!

2004-03-18 Thread Christophe Combelles
Something very strange : I have done a test with a small USB1 memory key (i-stick). I copy a 1.9 MB file from the hard drive to the USB mass storage device, with three different methods: 1) from KDE with Konqueror : 7s (~280 ko/s) 2) from Gnome with Nautilus: 30s (~60 ko/s) 3) from the console w