NEMO and CP super slow while transferring file

[overkill22]

I was using nemo without problem, but today, I'm not able to transfer 1Gb file to the usb pen.
Why? I tried to reboot, format the usb, change file, but nothimg, it get stuck at 98% more or less...

[kc1di]

how big is the pen drive?

That sometimes happens if the drive it low on space.

[overkill22]

how big is the pen drive?

That sometimes happens if the drive it low on space.

Pen drive 4Gb, was empty. I used gparted to format it twice. Then I changed pen drive, and the result was the same. Until two days ago I had no problems at all...

[all41]

Hi,
Try temporarily creating a new user, log out and back in as the new user, and try transferring the file from there.

[kc1di]

how big is the pen drive?

That sometimes happens if the drive it low on space.

Pen drive 4Gb, was empty. I used gparted to format it twice. Then I changed pen drive, and the result was the same. Until two days ago I had no problems at all...

What files system did you format it as?

[overkill22]

how big is the pen drive?

That sometimes happens if the drive it low on space.

Pen drive 4Gb, was empty. I used gparted to format it twice. Then I changed pen drive, and the result was the same. Until two days ago I had no problems at all...

What files system did you format it as?

fat32.

I tried to clean the cache with

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sudo sh -c 'echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'

as it was full, but nothing changed.

Edit:
actually it is stuck at 61% now and don't move. I'm trying to copy 2,5Gb of files.


I still have to try to do the new user though.

[all41]

If the new user doesn't work try erasing the entire mbr on the pen drive:

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sudo shred -s $((2048*512)) -vzn0 /dev/sdx 

replace sdx with your actual pen drive designation (often sdb--make sure to get this part right)
gparted or the disks utility will tell you.

Then in gparted under Device in the toolbar create a new partition table (msdos)
Then under Partition in the toolbar create a new partition.
Usually Fat 32 unless you anticipate transferring individual files over 4gb
then choose ntfs partition instead and it will be cross-platform compatible

[overkill22]

still incredibly slow.... now it is 2 minutes I'm stuck at 99%

[overkill22]

nothing, I tried everything but nemo will hang forever and can't transfer a simple 1Gb file...

any suggestion?

[DrHu]

Not sure, there do seem to be some issues
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=117647

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compariso ... e_managers
--comparison of file managers

Consider trying another file manager, eg Gigolo
http://www.uvena.de/gigolo/help.html

Or better yet, a two pane file manager
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Commander
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Commander
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Commander

[overkill22]

Not sure, there do seem to be some issues
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=117647

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compariso ... e_managers
--comparison of file managers

Consider trying another file manager, eg Gigolo
http://www.uvena.de/gigolo/help.html

Or better yet, a two pane file manager
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Commander
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Commander
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Commander

How many memories with norton commander...aahah!

However, when I first installed mint there were no issues at all. everything started after a while, but I really don't know what causes this...

[overkill22]

Guys,
I tried to transfer a 882.1MB file from the computer to the pendrive with both, nemo and cp.

Either way, it takes more than 5 minutes when the process should be few seconds (I'm using USB 3.0).

I can see that in the pendrive the file is 882.1MB, but in the process window of nemo, it get stuck after few seconds on 833.4.
I guess the same happen while using cp, as I tried to use -v, but it didn't show me any useful information.

I don't know if it could be useful, but just know while transferring file, at one point, my USB mouse get stuck, it stopped working, and then when the file transferring was complete, it start work again.
Could be a USB problem?
The computer is brand new btw.

edit: another test I did shows the file being transferred 100% in 3 seconds, then the process hang for 3 minutes.

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rsync -ah --progress /home/overkill22/Videos/myfile.mkv /media/overkill22/PENDRIVE/
sending incremental file list
myfile.mkv
        882.06M 100%  265.19MB/s    0:00:03 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/1)

I did the opposite, transferring the file from the USB to the computer, and the process took 4 seconds or less, with all the 3 methods.
I tried to switch pendrive, but copying from pc>pendrive is the same with 3 different pendrives on different USB port

edit 2:
I tried THIS METHOD and HERE

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sudo -i
echo $((16*1024*1024)) > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_bytes
echo $((48*1024*1024)) > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_bytes

The process doesn't hang, but takes forever to finish, the copy speed is super low, between 4 and 7Mb/s
So I went back to the previous version with

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echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_bytes
echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_bytes