On Mon, 28.12.09 20:43, Chris (cpollock at embarqmail.com) wrote: > I noticed tonight that when I was copying a 1.2Gb file to my thumb drive > that it took forever. From a suggestion in another list I ran in a > terminal pulseaudio -k ; pulseaudio -vvvv. I've attached the output. One > other thing of note, after disabling pulseaudio I was able to copy the > file in around 3minutes. In the previous example I had to stop the copy > process after 15 minutes at only 50%. This is on: Does iotop/top give any hint what exactly is the problem? Please provide the output of "pacmd list" when this happens. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4