[ltp] T42: USB2 port way too slow

[Richard Neill]

Dominik Riebeling wrote:
> On 6/17/06, Pintér Balázs <predy@freemail.hu> wrote:
> 
>> > It takes 14 min (!!) to transfer 57MB to a USB pendrive (which is also
>> > hi-speed USB):
> 
> 
> is your pen drive mounted with the mount option "async"? Using the
> "sync" option is reeeally slow.
> 

That doesn't help much though.  If you mount async, it just means that 
umount has to flush the buffers. So saving a (large) file may take 1 
second rather than 30, but umount will take much longer.

Either way, sync vs async shouldn't make much difference to the total time.


Richard