When I upgraded to FC3 (2.6.9-1.667) EVERYTHING (including copying files between partitions etc) was SLOWWW, tried everything to figure out the problem with no success. Yesterday upgraded the kernel to 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 now everything is GOOD. I am still not sure what was the problem but you might want to try it. ------------------------------ Message: 17 Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 03:08:42 -0800 From: Herv? Pag?s <herve.pages@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Moving files from ext2 to FAT32 under FC3 is VERY slow! To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <41BAD53A.8020200@xxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi everybody, Today I had to move some big divx files from a ext2 to a NTFS partition, both on the same disk (/dev/hda2 and /dev/hda1 respectively). Since my FC3 installation does not handle NTFS, I first moved them to an intermediate FAT32 partition located on another local drive (/dev/hdd10), rebooted on Windows XP and then moved them from E: (/dev/hdd10 again) to C: (/dev/hda1). It tooks 50 min for FC3 to move my stuff (7.3 GB) from /dev/hda2 to /dev/hdd10. Then it took only 5 min for Windows XP to move the same stuff from /dev/hdd10 to /dev/hda1. Hence transfer speed was 24 MB/s under Windows XP (which seems something normal) while it was 10 times slower under FC3. Any idea of what's going one here? FC3 is running on an Athlon 2400 XP with 512 MB of RAM. /dev/hda is a Seagate Barracuda 120 GB / 7200 rpm / 8 MB cache (ST3120026A). No /dev/hdb. /dev/hdd is a Seagate Barracuda 80 GB / 5400 rpm / 2 MB cache (ST380021A). Sony CD/DVD combo on /dev/hdc. Hervé
