From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 Description of problem: Fedora Core 2 2.6.8-1.521 on i686 IBM T30 Laptop When using gftp and transfering large files off my internal FTP server (1GB image file) the laptop harddrive will start to thrash and the system becomes unusable, it slows to a near stop... There is lots of lots of HD activity but extreemly slow responce from any applications. This makes the OS unusable and I am unable to shut down the system clean, only solutio is to power off. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gftp-2.0.17-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start gftp from terminal 2.connect to local ftp server over local wifi (default orinoco drivers) 3.start transfer of 1Gb file 4. Try to use system... Actual Results: System became unusable, mass amonts of HD thrashing and had to power off Expected Results: would expect performande reduction but still usability of OS Additional info:
I have also tried this with command line ftp and connection to a windows smb share. Every large file causes the same issue, this is not specific to gftp. The transfer is going through an onboard prism wifi card, (Prism 2.5 Wavelan Chipset). I have recently done a new build on the system and still get this issue. I will try through a wired nic on the same computer and report the results.
OK tried this with the Lan Port instead of the wireless card, no issue found at all. So this seem to be only related when transfedrring files via the wifi card.
What kernel driver does that Prism 2.5 use?
This is the drivers that is shipped with Fedora Core 2, please let me know if you want additional info, apologies but i have only been using linux a short time. Let me know if you need any info or if you would like me to run any commands.
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
Closing per lack of response. Note that FC1 and FC2 are no longer supported even by Fedora Legacy. Please install a still supported version and retest. If this still occurs on FC3 or FC4 and is a security issue, please assign to that version and Fedora Legacy. If it still occurs on FC5 or FC6, please reopen and assign to the correct version.