We regularly copy a few hundreds of gigabytes of data from a host
running Fedora to a LaCie USB 2 hard drive in order to ship the data to
an overseas company. We've noticed that initiating the copy causes the
load on the machine to creep up and the machine to become very slow in
response. Stopping the copy causes the load to slowly come down again.
Machine is a quad processor (or dual dual-core) AMD Opeteron box running FC3
2.6.12-1.1381_FC3smp #1 SMP Fri Oct 21 04:22:48 EDT 2005 x86_64 x86_64
x86_64 GNU/Linux
dmesg info:
Vendor: LaCie Model: BigDisk Rev:
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdc: 976794336 512-byte hdwr sectors (500119 MB)
sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdc: 976794336 512-byte hdwr sectors (500119 MB)
sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
sdc: sdc1
Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
There are no error messages. Any ideas?
Hugh
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Hugh Caley | Unix Systems Administrator | CIS
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