09-29-2018, 02:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-29-2018, 02:45 PM by Tyrannocaster.)
I don't think it's a PCManFM issue because copying the same file in the terminal exhibits peculiar behavior as well, as does copying in Double Commander. AFAIK, PCManFM, Thunar and also Double Commander are just frontends for regular system commands like you would use in the terminal. I just tried doing the same file transfer using two Thunar windows and got the same result; the file appears to have copied over successfully, but the progress bar in this case was stuck at about 90% and it took about two minutes to finally close.
Are there distros that do not exhibit this behavior? If I can't get this sorted out, I am seriously going to look at other distros, as I have this computer, a Windows PC, and two Macs here and I have to be able to move stuff between them easily. That would be a real pisser, as I really like Linux Lite in all other respects, at least so far. Or maybe this is just a Linux thing?
As an afterthought, I tried copying a folder of videos over; the folder had 13 files in it (each about 260 gigs, so roughly the same size as my first file already described) and a total size of 3.4 gigs. In this case, the progress bar moved, but the progress was jerky - it seemed to show the progress in steps. It also took 23 minutes to copy all the files. Interestingly, the Task Manager showed processor spikes (up to 100%), at first from Thunderbird, but when I closed Thunderbird then Firefox started doing it. I couldn't close Firefox because I was writing this post in it. :-) When the transfer finally finished the CPU use went down to about 10%, then down to about 3%, which is the normal idle value for this setup. It's interesting that according tot he Task Manager it was other programs that were spiking but I have a feeling that if I had closed Firefox then it would have simply moved to another process.
Then, out of curiosity, I copied the same files to the same flash drive from my Windows 7 PC using the USB 2.0 port; it took just over 10 minutes, with the speed given as @5.6-5.8 megs/sec pretty much the whole time.
In Windows, you can set the properties of a flash drive to allow write caching, which can speed up the transfer. On this computer, although I can do that with hard disks via Gnome Disk, that option is grayed out for mounted USB drives.
Are there distros that do not exhibit this behavior? If I can't get this sorted out, I am seriously going to look at other distros, as I have this computer, a Windows PC, and two Macs here and I have to be able to move stuff between them easily. That would be a real pisser, as I really like Linux Lite in all other respects, at least so far. Or maybe this is just a Linux thing?
As an afterthought, I tried copying a folder of videos over; the folder had 13 files in it (each about 260 gigs, so roughly the same size as my first file already described) and a total size of 3.4 gigs. In this case, the progress bar moved, but the progress was jerky - it seemed to show the progress in steps. It also took 23 minutes to copy all the files. Interestingly, the Task Manager showed processor spikes (up to 100%), at first from Thunderbird, but when I closed Thunderbird then Firefox started doing it. I couldn't close Firefox because I was writing this post in it. :-) When the transfer finally finished the CPU use went down to about 10%, then down to about 3%, which is the normal idle value for this setup. It's interesting that according tot he Task Manager it was other programs that were spiking but I have a feeling that if I had closed Firefox then it would have simply moved to another process.
Then, out of curiosity, I copied the same files to the same flash drive from my Windows 7 PC using the USB 2.0 port; it took just over 10 minutes, with the speed given as @5.6-5.8 megs/sec pretty much the whole time.
In Windows, you can set the properties of a flash drive to allow write caching, which can speed up the transfer. On this computer, although I can do that with hard disks via Gnome Disk, that option is grayed out for mounted USB drives.
