On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 03:39 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 05.01.2012 03:02, schrieb Fernando Cassia: > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:01, Patrick O'Callaghan > > <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Understanding how the file abstraction works is to my mind a question of > >> basic culture around here. As a piece of engineering design balancing > >> functional elegance with practicality it's a wonderful thing to > >> contemplate and a key element of the success of the Unix model, > > > > I agree. Thanks for the explanation, links and pointers, Patrick. > > but having in the year 2012 a Corei7 Quad with 16 GB RAM which is > freezing the KDE-Desktop while you rsync large files to a USB > drive is a little bit unacepptable - and that is what happens > since a longer time if you read data froma real fast RAID10 and > write it to a USB-drive
I agree of course, but that has nothing to do with Fernando's question. The problem appears to be related to the USB driver, or possibly to the large page problem someone mentioned recently, it's not clear. All I know is that in F15 my system would get a little slower when writing to a pendrive, and now in F16 it practically stops. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
