System running Ubuntu Jaunty AMD64, vanilla 2.6.29.1. KDE4.2, two
terminal windows, no other graphical applications.

I created two test files of identical size with random data and copied to the 
USB pendrive, once on a freshly rebooted system, and once after I first 
experienced a slowdown while copying some other files to the pendrive and 
deleting them again; doing a "sync" after each copy.
A second terminal window ran dstat -D sda,sdb both times.

( Preparation:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/tmp/850-MiB-testfile.A bs=1M count=850
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/tmp/850-MiB-testfile.B bs=1M count=850
reboot )

First run after reboot:
(/dev/sdb1 mounted on /media/pendrive)
cp /var/tmp/850-MiB-testfile.A /media/pendrive

Second run after the first slowdowns were observed during copying of other 
files and deleting them again:
cp /var/tmp/850-MiB-testfile.B /media/pendrive

The output results of "dstat -D sda,sdb" are attached.

First run,  approx. 16 MiB/sec constant:  dstat-D.OK.850-MiB-random-
data.txt

Second run with slowdown:  dstat-D.slow.850-MiB-random-data.txt


I'm sorry, I couldn't figure out what causes the slowdown after a while.

I'm doing some more tests tomorrow, with other kernel versions
and with a borrowed USB harddisk.

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file transfers on USB disk are very slow
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762
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