background or foreground copies, CPU eating

2013-12-13 Thread wwp
Hello there, I'm (happily) using mc for years, and performing copies/moves all day long with it. What I noticed on my laptop system, is that copying big files (say stuff like movie files, 250Mb), will often perform quite slowly and uncomfortably when it's done over USB2. I don't know if it's

Re: background or foreground copies, CPU eating

2013-12-13 Thread William Kimber
Hi, With Flash drives aka USB sticks. The system copies stuff to them then there is a pause while it gets written to the actual chips but that is not the case with USB hard drives. I have found that the transfer rate is not up to what it is claimed for USB2 when writing to USB hard drives.

Re: mc Digest, Vol 116, Issue 3

2013-12-13 Thread chris glur
Consider that USB has only 4 lines, to transfer data AND supply power. And it ca run over a longish unshielded cable. Such physical realities limit the transfer rate. ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc