[maemo-users] Slow writes from linux to N900 in USB Mass Storage Mode

[From: Timo Pelkonen]

5. tammikuuta 2010 13.29 Kimmo Hämäläinen <kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com>kirjoitti:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 22:38 +0100, ext Paul Hartman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using linux kernel 2.6.32 on my PC and mount N900 in mass storage
> > mode using vfat (async).
> >
> > If I write one file then sync/umount, write speed is about 17MB/sec,
> > same as I get on Windows Vista. However, if I write more than one file
> > and then sync/umount, speed is terrible, around 2MB/sec (and in kernel
> > 2.6.31 that speed was about 450kb/sec using the old pdflush code). So
> > it seems linux is maybe creating multiple write streams and N900
> > doesn't deal with that well at all.
>
> There has been some USB speed-ups since the sales release, but I'm not
> sure if they fix this multiple file copying problem. I think it's best
> to file a bug to maemo.org, so Maemo kernel guys get the word (I think
> too few of them read this mailing list).
>
> -Kimmo
>
> > Size doesn't seem to matter, copying one 1gb file followed by sync is
> > around 8 times faster than copying 2 500gb files followed by sync. In
> > other words, as long as every single file copy is followed immediately
> > by sync before moving on to the next file, speed is fine. If more than
> > 1 file is copied before sync, it's bad.
> >
> > Does anyone else experience the same problem or have any ideas how to
> > solve it? I'm no USB guru an every other USB device I have seems to
> > work properly and at full speed. dmesg shows no messages (on PC) and
> > it is running USB 2.0 etc.
> >
> > So far my only workaround is to copy/sync/copy/sync/copy/sync but
> > that's annoying. However, the difference of taking 1 minute to write
> > 1gb versus taking 20 minutes to write 1gb is also annoying.
> >
> > Thanks :)
>
>

I suggest you try to change your settings in linux first

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=453521&postcount=24

Ossipena / Timo
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