[Bug 696212] Re: Soft cpu lock copying files form external usb drive

2011-03-05 Thread Jason Spashett
I tested with the latest upstream kernel available: 2.6.38-999-generic #201103050905 SMP Sat Mar 5 10:18:37 UTC 2011 ** I found this is not specific to USB external drives. the main and only, internal drive on this machine exhibits the problem *** To test, I duplicated a ~ 13GiB directory under

[Bug 696212] Re: Soft cpu lock copying files form external usb drive

2011-01-13 Thread Jeremy Foshee
Hi Jason, If you could also please test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstre

[Bug 696212] Re: Soft cpu lock copying files form external usb drive

2011-01-01 Thread Jason Spashett
vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic and vmlinuz-2.6.35-24-generic rather, sorry. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/696212 Title: Soft cpu lock copying files form external usb drive -- ubuntu-bu

[Bug 696212] Re: Soft cpu lock copying files form external usb drive

2011-01-01 Thread Jason Spashett
Having tested some more, it appears that the above doesn't actually fix the problem. However switching to a previous kernel does fix the problem. The most recent kernel seems to exhibit the problem. vmcoreinfo-2.6.35-22-generic OK vmcoreinfo-2.6.35-24-generic NOT OK -- You received this bug n

[Bug 696212] Re: Soft cpu lock copying files form external usb drive

2011-01-01 Thread Jason Spashett
Disabling ehci_hcd as per this article appears to get rid of the problem: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_USB_2.0 But this isn't a great workaround as usb transefers become agingly slow. I can reproduce this on one laptop with two different makes of externel usb drive. The same drive

[Bug 696212] Re: Soft cpu lock copying files form external usb drive

2011-01-01 Thread Jason Spashett
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