I took a chance and reinstalled my system with 32 bit 8.10, as suggested. I've done some quick testing and my USB devices are operating much faster, and the speed remains stable. Additionally, the whole system is *far* more responsive. Previously, I couldn't even use Firefox because it was too slow on certain web pages like Slashdot, with problems like scrolling down an article taking up to a minute due to incredibly sluggish screen redrawing. Previously doing simply things would also max out a single CPU core, however now the CPU is barely being hit unless I do something that is actually CPU intensive.
It's early days and I still need to install everything I use day to day, and do some more testing, but it would certainly seem that this is a bug in the 64 bit kernel that is affecting the whole system, but presenting most obviously as a file copying problem. Maybe it's multi-tasking related? I'll report back when I've done some more testing. -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
