Lee, What's the brand of the USB drive? Sounds like it's running as a USB1.1 device rather than USB2.
-Matt Daubney On 25 November 2012 19:19, LeeGroups <mailgro...@varga.co.uk> wrote: > Simon/Matt, > > You are indeed correct, the speed of the USB drive appears to be the issue > rather than the speed of the NFS share. > > Copying a 250MB file takes nearly 8 minutes... very poor... > > I've had a quick google which seems to suggest this issue has been around > since 8.04. > The suggested remedies do not seem to work however (adding grub options of > pci=routeirq or pci=apci, yes I did update grub). > > Watching 'top' on another SSH session during the copy shows that the CPU > use is around 5%, but the one minute load average is nearly 3, which I > really don't understand... > > And this new server was going so well :( > > Lee > > > > On 24/11/12 19:41, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > My immediate response would be to check the speed of the USB drive against > a share on the internal disk (assuming you still have the USB drive > attached). Also make sure that DNS is resolving correctly and that the Eee > knows about the client end. Also check the speed of your network > interfaces. > > s/ > > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >
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