I can confirm this happens when using dd'ing a 1G image directly to a usb device.
(warning! this will erase all data on the usb key) i.e. from terminal 1: dd if=/dev/zero bs=1000 count=1000000 of=/dev/sdb # where /dev/sdb is your usb key from terminal 2: while true; do killall -SIGUSR1 dd; sleep 1; done # this will make dd print status messages ever second The output is that the transfer speed starts at about 16MB/s and drops to a few KB/s after some minutes. When running this same command on a fedora box, the transfer speed started at about 5.5MB/s and finished at 4.9MB/s. -- file transfer on USB disk slows down with gvfs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
