Try: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_Storage_Devices#Poor_copy_performance_to_USB_pendrive Other possibility is a different kernel scheduler, more aware of disk load and desktop responsiveness, like linux-ck<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/linux-ck> . On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:01 AM, XeCycle <xecycle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Maykel Franco <maykeldebian@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Hi, I when I make a copy of a large file to a 2GB or 8GB usb 3.0 > > external hard drive, I notice that arch remains slow, frozen ... He > > struggles to open windows are minimized. I have the kernel: > > > > 3.12.2-1-ARCH > > > > Update the whole system to the last. Can you think because it can be? > > > > I also went from the 3.11 kernel > > > > However, debian, ubuntu, opensuse me not pass this ... > > > > It's happened to someone else? > > > > Thanks for everything. > > BTW what is the filesystem? I experienced similar problems on an > internal disk, of which the filesystem is NTFS. NTFS-3g seems to > consume too much CPU in the case of very large writes, and that > caused me a hang. > > -- > Carl Lei (XeCycle) > Department of Physics and Astronomy, SJTU > OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 > -- /-=| Δ ŋ đ г Σ |=-\ «» ♫♫♫ http://www.google.com/profiles/andre.vmatos
