[Pkg-mc-devel] [Bug 431207] Re: mc: Slows down desktop to a crawl when copying/moving data to external usb disk
Selmi
miso.seliga at gmail.com
Sun Oct 17 14:00:06 UTC 2010
i noticed such problem on ordinary builin disk when filesystem is ntfs
and file is long (~gigabytes)
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mc: Slows down desktop to a crawl when copying/moving data to external usb disk
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/431207
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Status in “mc” package in Ubuntu: New
Bug description:
Binary package hint: mc
Hello,
I was just copying about 20GB of data from the internal hard disk to an external one using mc (midnight commander). Using mc the desktop almost freezes, at least it takes 4 minutes until firefox starts. Thunderbird does not show any emails anymore. Mp3 playback becomes horribly interrupted. Switching between applications takes ages.
Using top on a text console, I saw that the %wa (iowait) entry in 'top' gets up to 85% to 90% percent. Stopping the data copy in mc restores the good behaviour of the desktop.
I then tried moving the data with mv. There is no iowait using mv, the desktop keeps responsive, only the %us (user space) entry in top shows some 80% percent, but that does not seem to slow down my desktop.
I think that mc should change it's behaviour when copying to that used by mv.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS
Release: 8.04
$ apt-cache policy mc
mc:
Installiert:1:4.6.1-8ubuntu1
Mögliche Pakete:1:4.6.1-8ubuntu1
Versions-Tabelle:
*** 1:4.6.1-8ubuntu1 0
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
This is on a Pentium M 1200MHz.
This is the external usb disk:
Bus 004 Device 004: ID 0d49:5020 Maxtor
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