Run this shell while copying the files (change the ITERATIONS value if you need to) ... it will monitor the memory usage (amount of data waiting to be written to disk). If the values remain high for too long (there may be a bottleneck when writing to disk), then your problem could be solved by tunning the pdflush parameters.
#!/bin/bash # Shows amount of data in memory ... waiting to be written to disk # Number of times to repeat the loop ... 1 iteration x second ITERATIONS=60 for (( c=1; c<=$ITERATIONS; c++ )) do echo $(date) "--> " $(cat /proc/meminfo | grep Dirty) sleep 1 done exit 0 -- Ubuntu hangs up from time to time when I try to copy files from ATA NTFS to SATA ext4 partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390204 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs