Thanks, it's not an issue in nautilus then, reassigning to linux
** Package changed: nautilus (Ubuntu) => linux (Ubuntu)
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Yes. It's how I copy stuff 99% of the times, anyway.
`cp ~/movies/BigSomething.mkv /media/facundo/PenDrive/`, and the whole
system starts to lag.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.
So even if you use the 'cp' command line tool?
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows down and hangs while copying file from/to USB
Status in nau
No matter how you do the copy, the problem presents.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows down and hangs while copying file from/to USB
Status
Is the issue there specific to nautilus or do you have the same if you
copy from a command line (using cp or gio cp)
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubu
I have run into it with Ubuntu 18.04.1 x64 also. I have a completely
separate drive and Windows system in the same computer and Windows, dare
I say it, has no problem and is quick. My data files that fail are
400-500MB and they freeze after about 200MB of transfer when copy from a
32GB SanDisk Ul
Same problem in Ubuntu 18.04.1 x64 (Gnome and Mate Confirmed). None of
the proposals described work
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows down an
same problem in ubuntu 18.04
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows down and hangs while copying file from/to USB
Status in nautilus package in U
I've tried to copy my data (2GB)to the external drive, it takes almost
4-5Hours to finish. I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-130-generic
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12089
I'm not sure whether the following is clear to whoever is looking into
this bug: The issue arises only when using a USB3 port; it does not
happen when using USB2. At least, that's the way my 14.04/12 Gb system
is affected.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
@ew0 I setup the usbquirks.conf the way you recommended. I also
confirmed that the address is right with lsusb. However it doesn't seem
to have had any effect. How can I confirm that it's being loaded?
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is su
I experienced this issue twice in the last 24 hours on 16.04. Both
times, I waited over an hour after the computer froze before performing
a hard reset on the machine. (The expected time for the operation to
complete was under 10 minutes.) In my case, the computer goes directly
from working as expe
...and you get the HW address via lsusb (in my case 174c:1053)
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows down and hangs while copying file from/to US
Regarding my previous comment - much better to add this line to a file
in /etc/modprobe.d/
e.g. usbquirks.conf
Create this file and add
options usb-storage quirks=0x174c:0x1053:u
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus
Maybe this helps some folks with the same issue:
On copying larger files, my system syslog showed multiple times
usb 9-2.4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
As root the following command line fixed the issue with the usb storage driver
modprobe -v usb-storage quirks=0x174c:
You can make those settings permanent by editing
/etc/sysctl.conf
and adding the line
vm.dirty_bytes = 2
By issuing
$ sysctl -p
you won't have to reboot to use the new settings right away.
Anyway, for me it does not make any difference transfer speed wise when
copying files to USB wi
Solution #79 solves the issue for me too.
Ubuntu 17.10. I was trying to copy some big files in the order of 50GB
to an external hd (formatted NTFS) via USB2 and noted it hung every time
(I tried at least a whole afternoon). I installed caja and had the same
issue like under nautilus. I have never
Solution #79 solves the issue.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows down and hangs while copying file from/to USB
Status in nautilus package in
about same here with Ubuntu 17.10 : copying 700Mo file to USB, using
nautilus, is apparently very quick and freezes in the end.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
T
I should also say that the link I posted solves a different problem.
Nevertheless, it's what worked for me.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows
After reading all these comments, me too, etc. etc. This is what fixed
it for me, although I set mine at 200MB instead of 15MB.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/180818/gnome-nautilus-copy-
files-to-usb-stops-at-100-or-near
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member o
Also false alarm for my #75 comment
Just yesterday i copy more small file 1Gb and yes also with not good
speed but without slow down pc. Now i copy 2 movies x 1.5gb , and pc
hang. Not possible to move mouse normal and etc.
I see this bug is from more than 2 years and not fix yet. Very
disappointe
False alarm! The problem just happened again. Froze while downloading
the google chrome installer.
It does seem like the vm.dirty modifications definitely helped. But it
could have been coincidence. At least it didn't freeze during the
updater and ruin my filesystem this time.
--
You received th
Same issue here on a new 16.04 install on a new HP laptop. SSD. It was
crashing randomly during the install, then when I got it installed it
crashed every time I tried to run the updater.
Setting the vm.dirty_ratio and vm.dirty_background_ratio to 10 and 5
worked for me as well so far.
I did
This fix my problem. Add deadline i/o sheduler for non rotating disks
(in my case usb pen)
sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/60-schedulers.rules
and paste these
# set cfq scheduler for rotating disks
ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="1",
ATTR{queue/scheduler}="cfq"
#
Same problem
Kubuntu 16.04 LTS
8Gb Ram
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows down and hangs while copying file from/to USB
Status in nautilus p
I am also affected , its not just nautilus, all file managers and even
using VM was the same , at first I thought my hdd was dying but now I
tested couple wd my passport hdd same issues
lubunut 17.10 64 bit
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which
The same here.
$ uname -a
Linux connie-desktop 4.10.0-38-generic #42~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 10
16:32:20 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ free -m
totalusedfree shared buff/cache available
Memory:39393040 156 97
I was also using command line, everything was on ext4 (internal HD and
USB HD).
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows down and hangs while copyin
Btw. I'm not using any graphical UI, just the command line.
Linux doctor 4.10.0-35-generic #39~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 13 09:02:42 UTC
2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubu
ok, obviously a wrong guess on my side. I tried copying from and to xfs
and jfs without problems, and signs of paralysis with btrfs coming in.
But if you experience sluggishness without btrfs I also doubt it's
related to that.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desk
I also suffer this problem in non-btrfs filesystems (ext4 on hardisk,
different ones when USB drive involved)
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slo
I am also affected by this bug on Lenovo Thinkpad with: Intel® Core™ i7-4810MQ
CPU @ 2.80GHz × 8 and 256GB SSD. But it seems it is not hardware related. Tried
the workarounds, none work, the systems is still sluggish and freezing while
copying (both nautilus and command line) 6GB file to USB. Th
What file system is involved?
I'm still investigating, but in my case it seems always btrfs related so far.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows
Today, while unpacking an archive of about 1GB of small files from
internal HD to USB HD, I wanted to unpack a small ~50k file on the USB
HD also... It wasn't done until a big archive was completely unpacked. A
new low...
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
P
Suffering badly on 16.04 LTS, every time I need to move >100MB or so
from SSD to USB2 external drives. Transfer of large files seems to
block/cause Nautilus & "File Operations" dialogue to become choppy/hang.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, whic
Sorry, not 10bit, 100Mbit...
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows down and hangs while copying file from/to USB
Status in nautilus package in U
I'm not using nautilus, but I'm still affected. I'm having a system
slowdown even when copying files over 10Mbit network, so it may be not
just USB related. Generally, when some I/O is at its full capacity
(being that slow USB 2.0 or slow 10Mbit network transfer), the whole I/O
of the OS comes to a
@levien: I think people might be mixing both bugs up, but as I mostly
use the terminal for copying and moving, I can assure you this is its
own bug.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpa
Could this, at least in part, be a duplicate of this bug?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1133477
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
I'm using 16.04 and I have the same problem.
I think nobody mentioned that: the real problem may be that the speed is
not displayed accurately. I have a USB flash drive where copying a 3GB
file takes around 8 to 12 minutes (in Windows the copying speed is up to
around 10Mb/s). In Ubuntu it takes t
Problem starts with 4.10. Previously used 4.4.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows down and hangs while copying file from/to USB
Status in nau
16.04 64bit 4.8.0-54-generic #57~16.04.1-Ubuntu affected too. N551JK
(ASUS-NotebookSKU)
The workaround in #6 doesn't fix the system being very laggy while
copying files over USB. Maybe a tad better but huge lags still happen.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desk
Same here, 8Gb Intel Core 2, copying ~5Gb to usb, even mouse pointer
slows down. Tried it with 4.10 kernel, same happens.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Same also happened to me on all the previous versions I used - 14.04,
14.10. Considering switching to a normal Linux who's core doesn't work
like shit.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launc
Same here on 16.04 with 64 GB of RAM.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows down and hangs while copying file from/to USB
Status in nautilus pac
I have this on ubuntu 17.04. It's very annoying; every time I copy large
files to/ from a USB drive the PC slows/ stutters until the copy has
finished
And I find it very surprising that this bug is still not assigned
despite being confirmed
--
You received this bug notification because you are a
Seeing the same issue on 16.04 on an early 2009 iMac with 8GB's of RAM
and an SSD. (the last two things are unconventional for this model, as
is the prescence of Ubuntu instead of OSX i guess)
The workaround proposed in asnwer #6 seems to at least prevent my system
from locking up during file tran
I have this problem on Ubuntu 16.04. Not only the system becomes very
slow, but also the USB transfer speed is horrible. From USB3 port into
USB2 drive it goes down to 2-3 MB/s
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in U
Yes, this issue is mixed, people talking about those two problem.
The original poster states one of the problem, though: "While copying
many and large files to and from a USB drive, the system becomes
incredibly slow and sometimes hangs.", which is illustrated by Mauro
(mauromol) with the example
My setup: 16.04 xenial, Kernel : Linux 4.4.0-67-generic
I agree it may be two different issues.
Since two weeks I have having a related problem, although it is no the
stuttering/freezing of the system mentioned in #45 (issue 1) while copying
files. No crashing when copying files, just slowness
totally agree with mauro - it is very sad that nothing happens. if this
goes on, i ll have to consider another linux OS for my next machine :(
tried all the suggestions and none worked for me. too many parameters
involved, too complex, impossible to narrow down the issue.
--
You received this bu
I think this bug report is a bit messy, because it mixes two different
issues.
I think that the original problem is the one I'm experiencing and that is
perfectly described by the StackExchange answer pointed to by Peter Stevenson's
comment #45.
Indeed, setting dirty_background_bytes and dirty_b
Switching to the "deadline" I/O schedular seems to have solved the
problem for me
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows down and hangs while copy
Greetings I found this to work perfect for me. This issue persits in 16.04.2
still:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/107703/why-is-my-pc-freezing-while-im-copying-a-file-to-a-pendrive/107722#107722
My setup OS: Ubuntu 16.04 xenial, Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.4.0-66-generic
--
You received th
It seems that there is a problem with the kernel default I/O scheduler, CFQ.
The following worked for me.
https://techtitbits.com/2010/04/get-rid-of-freeze-ups-during-disk-io-
activity-in-ubuntu/
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscri
As an added note: this not just an issue with nautilus. I've experienced
the same issue with thunar on Xubuntu 16.04 and kernel 4.4.0.64-generic.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.n
Ive got this same issue on 16.04.02. It happens with nautilus and also rsync.
Ubuntu is installed on ssd, and so shouldn't have any noticeable impact on the
file transfer, but for some reason it does...
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is
Same here.
I simply stopped using nautilus file copy for *anything* that is more
than 5 files and 10 MB.
Just because it is always always always much slower than anything I do
on the command line.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subsc
i also have this bug in ubuntu 16.04.1, i have a dual boot system
(i5-5200u 5th gen, 8gb). Copying files from windows directory was too
slow, but it wasn't the case in 16.10 (i had to revert because of
some compatibility issues).
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member
this bug affect me too, ubuntu 16.04.1
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows down and hangs while copying file from/to USB
Status in nautilus pa
Same here on 16.04 and 14.04 ...
I made thousand of disk performance tests and found a lot of unspecific
impacts of the performance without reasonable by any other process.
Although the following tests are using a LVM vol this is also happen on
a "normal" single device
$ hdparm -tT --direct /de
Slows down and hangs seem to be two different problems. My mashines never hang
but "slow down" when copying thousands of different files. I found an
interesting answer here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/122113/copy-to-usb-memory-stick-really-slow
1'st answer from izx > reason 2, that You can s
Same here on ubuntu 16.04
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows down and hangs while copying file from/to USB
Status in nautilus package in Ubun
Still having these slow USB performances after updating to Ubuntu 16.10
- and worse, it crashes sometimes when copying large files :(
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208
Same problem on Ubuntu Mate 16.04.01 with caja, nautilus and nemo.
Moving only a few dozen files can take several minutes. Files are on one disk
in same directory tree.
Moving files with mv is almost instantaeous, too fast to measure.
Intel i74771 and SSD and HDs
--
You received this bug noti
Seeing the same problem since upgrading from 15.10 to 16.04.
The vm.dirty workarounds and disabling swap don't make a difference.
Once this problem kicks in ALL disk writes become stupidly slow (2MB/s)
until next reboot on both SSD and spinning HDD.
i5-4460/16Gb RAM/ASUS Z97-K
This is an enormo
Update: I applied the settings from the duplicate bug workaround, and
that seems to have help a little. But still not 100%
vm.dirty_ratio = 60
vm.dirty_background_ratio = 40
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubu
I am running Mint 17.3 on an ASUS N550JX, am also having this issue. But
the fix noted above did not resolve my problem.
_
vm.dirty_background_ratio = 5
vm.dirty_ratio = 10
in /etc/sysctl.conf
and running sysctl -p
_
Is there any o
Having too on desktop ubuntu lts 16.04.1 with usb 3.0, new hdd, ntfs.
Also, speed continuously slowing down and then freezes and power led of
the disk start flapping.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
htt
I'm having this issue right now on 16.04. What's strange, is that if I
copy say 600GB worth of thousands of files, about half way through, Xorg
will start chewing up resources, and everything slows down to a hault,
even though literally the only thing I ever opened was Nautilus. I
never opened Fi
This also happens for me, but it also eventually crashes my computer
(AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 250 Processor × 2 with 4GB RAM).
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title
I can confirm this is the case on 16.04 too, using an external USB SSD.
This is on a Lenovo Thinkpad X220, Core i5, 8GB RAM.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Titl
This is still the case on 16.04.1.
System is a Laptop with an older Core i5, 4 GB RAM. While transferring some
200MB files the system is completely unusable.
At this point it's a little embarrassing not to be able to transfer files to a
USB drive without getting system freezes in 2016 on a fre
Same problem here, driving me crazy because it's unpredictable. Last
night I copied 500GB (movies 1-2 GB) from an old external HDD to a new
external external HDD. Finished the next morning without problems. Next
I wanted to copy 5GB and the transfer became slower until it came to a
halt. The system
Also can confirm this bug on ubuntu gnome 16.04. didnt experience it on
15.10.
Copying big files to usb thumbdrive makes system hangs on unresponsive.
very annoying
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
http
I also experience this problem on Linux Mint 17.3 KDE (based on Ubuntu 14.04),
copying through the KDE I/O subsystem (Dolphin or Krusader). So, I think
Nautilus (which shows in the "Affects" field) is just a victim.
I have a notebook (HP ProBook 450 G1) with 4 GB RAM. I was thinking it might
hav
I am facing this bug. I tried to copy about 100GB to a toshiba portable
hdd on ubuntu 16.04LTS live, and the whole laptop got frozen for more
than 20 mins. But the lights that indicates disk activity on laptop and
portable hdd is blinking. even right click was not working. I noticed
this bug first
Same problem in my Laptop and PC also I have used Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
version, both have 8 GB Ram, while coping 3GB file (a single Movie) to
my mobile sd card or My 1 TB western external hard drive the system
hangs and mouse pointer not moving . After restart the system only ,
system will normal.
--
The problem still exists in 16.04. And as I can see the ticket is not
assigned to anyone...
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows down and hangs
This problem started ocurring for me when I moved to 16.04. I also
upgraded my RAM from 8 to 16GB.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows down and
The problem is worst.
If you plug an USB external HDD and if have REALLY bad read problems
(the drive in question is damaged and i'm trying to recover some data
with ddrescue) in 120s, even if there is ANY disk, RAM or CPU load, the
systems crashes EVERY TIME.
I try JUST TO PLUG this specific dam
This also happens in 16.04 LTS when moving files. Mouse is very slow.
Sometimes it doesn't move for many seconds.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu
When copying a large amount (multilple files) form an external drive
(USB3 cable), my brand new Lenovo T450s laptop (20GB RAM, ... high
specs) has frequent latencies/freezes. Doing nearly any operation takes
several extra seconds, with zero responsiveness (e.g. trying to move
mouse or switch to tt
More feedback about the problem I'm experiencing.
First some data about my system:
Kernel 3.16.0-57-generic
Ubuntu Desktop 14.4 LTS
32 bits
2GB RAM
Centrino duo
I complete my previous comment. I was performing two I/O operations
before I got the problem. I couldn't repeat the problem with the fi
Hi.
Same problem in my Dell Latitude D820, Centrino Duo, 32bits, 2GB RAM.
Running Ubuntu Desktop 14.4 LTS.
After trying to copy 10GB data from my local SSD to a USB hard disk, the
system freezes.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscr
Reproduced every time on fresh install of Ubuntu 2015.10 on a Thinkpad
T550 with 16GB of RAM, all settings by default except a few Unity
tweaks, freshly rebooted.
When transferring a 364GB file, Ubuntu becomes extremely unresponsive.
Mouse very difficult to move but I managed to click Firefox&s ic
Hello, today I experienced this problem for the first time. The only
change on my laptop was the addition of 4GB RAM stick. Now I have 8GB
total. I changed /etc/sysctl.conf as mentioned above ant the problem is
solved.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Pack
The default cache setup on Ubuntu 14.04 (no explicit settings in sysctl.conf)
seems to use bytes instead of a ratio:
$ cat /proc/vmstat | egrep "dirty|writeback"
nr_dirty 43
nr_writeback 0
nr_writeback_temp 0
nr_dirty_threshold 169462
nr_dirty_background_threshold 84731
This default is for a syst
Tried that a while ago, it made working with already open applications
and playing music OK (it stopped stuttering while copying), but if I
copy something large and want, for example, to start a terminal window,
I can click on terminal icon, but the window won't be shown until
copying is finished.
@Simon P. (simpre) thank you...
Changed my life adding
vm.dirty_background_ratio = 5
vm.dirty_ratio = 10
in /etc/sysctl.conf
and running sysctl -p
** lsb_relase *
LSB Version:
core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch
Confirmed when I try to copy files to or frome my usb disck.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows down and hangs while copying file from/to USB
@Simon P. (simpre) thank you...
64bit 14.04 is working fine after adding following lines
vm.dirty_background_ratio = 5
vm.dirty_ratio = 10
in /etc/sysctl.conf
and running sysctl -p
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautil
As time goes by, my 14.04 64bit instalation performs worse and worse
when doing anything with USB discs (flash or HD, doesn't matter).
If I start to copy a big file from/to flash USB, started programs
usually work to a degree (if they don't require access to HD), but if I
try to start something si
I am affected by this problem too, running Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit.
"dirty files" seem to cause this problem on 64 bit systems. I solved it
on my system by decreasing the dirty files cache. This article explains
it in detail: http://lonesysadmin.net/2013/12/22/better-linux-disk-
caching-performance-vm
I am using Ubuntu 14.04LTS on Dell XPS 13 L321x and i am affected with
this bug, too.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208993
Title:
Ubuntu slows down and hangs while
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12
97 matches
Mail list logo