Re: system response issue

2015-07-14 Thread jd1008
On 07/14/2015 06:13 AM, David Timms wrote: On 14/07/15 07:42, jd1008 wrote: On 07/13/2015 03:13 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 13:50 -0600, jd1008 wrote: I started a tar command from one external eSATA drive (ext4), connected to eSATA port, out to a USB flash drive (wi

Re: system response issue

2015-07-14 Thread David Timms
On 14/07/15 07:42, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 07/13/2015 03:13 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 13:50 -0600, jd1008 wrote: >>> I started a tar command from >>> one external eSATA drive (ext4), connected to eSATA port, >>> out to a USB flash drive (with vfat). The USB stick is t

Re: system response issue

2015-07-14 Thread g
double oops. my thinking and typing were out of sync. On 07/13/15 23:16, g wrote: > On 07/13/15 21:54, jd1008 wrote: >> On 07/13/2015 08:43 PM, g wrote: > <<<>>> > >>> ok. you have now thrown in *pipe* and process *un-tar*. >>> >>> are you using tar to pass files to target and have them end up

Re: system response issue

2015-07-13 Thread g
On 07/13/15 21:54, jd1008 wrote: > On 07/13/2015 08:43 PM, g wrote: <<<>>> >> ok. you have now thrown in *pipe* and process *un-tar*. >> >> are you using tar to pass files to target and have them end up as separate >> files, or as a single archive file? >> >> ria, all i see in your original post

Re: system response issue

2015-07-13 Thread jd1008
On 07/13/2015 08:43 PM, g wrote: On 07/13/15 21:17, jd1008 wrote: On 07/13/2015 06:52 PM, g wrote: more for thought, is tar building finale file in memory, /tmp, or on the usb3 drive? :) Well, since I was using a pipe, I assume swap backed memory is used. However, the un-tar process is runn

Re: system response issue

2015-07-13 Thread g
On 07/13/15 21:17, jd1008 wrote: > On 07/13/2015 06:52 PM, g wrote: >> more for thought, is tar building finale file in memory, /tmp, or on >> the usb3 drive? > :) > Well, since I was using a pipe, I assume swap backed memory is used. > However, the un-tar process is running in parallel, so the

Re: system response issue

2015-07-13 Thread jd1008
On 07/13/2015 06:52 PM, g wrote: more for thought, is tar building finale file in memory, /tmp, or on the usb3 drive? :) Well, since I was using a pipe, I assume swap backed memory is used. However, the un-tar process is running in parallel, so the RAM pipe is shared between the producer "tar

Re: system response issue

2015-07-13 Thread g
On 07/13/15 19:38, jd1008 wrote: > On 07/13/2015 05:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: <<>> >> IIRC USB drives are not DMA driven, i.e. each filesystem block written >> to the drive has to be pushed over the serial bus and handled by the >> CPU. Also, check if the drive is mounted with the 'flush

Re: system response issue

2015-07-13 Thread jd1008
On 07/13/2015 05:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 15:42 -0600, jd1008 wrote: On 07/13/2015 03:13 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 13:50 -0600, jd1008 wrote: I started a tar command from one external eSATA drive (ext4), connected to eSATA port, out t

Re: system response issue

2015-07-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 15:42 -0600, jd1008 wrote: > > On 07/13/2015 03:13 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 13:50 -0600, jd1008 wrote: > > > I started a tar command from > > > one external eSATA drive (ext4), connected to eSATA port, > > > out to a USB flash drive (with vfat)

Re: system response issue

2015-07-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 15:37 -0600, jd1008 wrote: > > On 07/13/2015 03:13 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 13:50 -0600, jd1008 wrote: > > > I started a tar command from > > > one external eSATA drive (ext4), connected to eSATA port, > > > out to a USB flash drive (with vfat)

Re: system response issue

2015-07-13 Thread jd1008
On 07/13/2015 03:13 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 13:50 -0600, jd1008 wrote: I started a tar command from one external eSATA drive (ext4), connected to eSATA port, out to a USB flash drive (with vfat). The USB stick is touted to support 50MB/s write, 160MB/s read. Have

Re: system response issue

2015-07-13 Thread jd1008
On 07/13/2015 03:13 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 13:50 -0600, jd1008 wrote: I started a tar command from one external eSATA drive (ext4), connected to eSATA port, out to a USB flash drive (with vfat). The USB stick is touted to support 50MB/s write, 160MB/s read. Have

Re: system response issue

2015-07-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 13:50 -0600, jd1008 wrote: > I started a tar command from > one external eSATA drive (ext4), connected to eSATA port, > out to a USB flash drive (with vfat). The USB stick is touted > to support 50MB/s write, 160MB/s read. Have you actually measured its real write speed for l

system response issue

2015-07-13 Thread jd1008
I started a tar command from one external eSATA drive (ext4), connected to eSATA port, out to a USB flash drive (with vfat). The USB stick is touted to support 50MB/s write, 160MB/s read. The USB port itself is USB 2.0 (480MBits/s). The desktop (Mate) response goes down the tubes. I ran top and f