Bug 1333583 - USB write is EXTREMELY SLOW
Summary: USB write is EXTREMELY SLOW
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 23
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-05-05 22:01 UTC by Todd
Modified: 2016-12-20 20:22 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-12-20 20:22:46 UTC
Type: Bug
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Red Hat Bugzilla 1333582 1 None None None 2021-01-20 06:05:38 UTC

Description Todd 2016-05-05 22:01:18 UTC
Dear Red Hat,

I *must* use flash drives as part of my business.

Writing to a USB Flash drive is  E-X-C-R-U-C-I-A-T-I-N-G-L-Y  SLOW.

The following is reproducible with Fedora Core 23 x64 and Scientific Linux 7.2 x64 with Kanguru SS3 32 GB flash drives

https://www.kanguru.com/storage-accessories/kanguru-ss3.shtml

Interface: USB 3.0 (Maintains Compatibility with USB 2.0)
Data Transfer Rate
    Max Read: 410MB/sec
    Max Write: 320MB/sec

Yesterday, I was doing a transfer of 20 GB to one of these sticks from Fedora Core 23.  After two hours, I shut it down.  Then I used my eSata port on my FC23 machine to do a direct transfer to the target machine's hard drive.  It took about two minutes.

Then, after reconnecting the target machine's hard drive and booting into Windows 7 Pro OEM x64 Service Pack 1, I tried the same transfer.  It took about five minutes.

Please fix this as soon as possible.

I will post to RHEL too.

Many thanks,
-T

Comment 1 Todd 2016-05-09 03:16:30 UTC
If this helps, this is the hardware involved:

SL7:

Supermicro X8SAX motherboard
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/X58/X8SAX.cfm

Intel X58 Express Chipset
http://ark.intel.com/products/36785

USB3 add on card:
Star Tech PCIUSB3S22
https://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/USB-3.0/Cards/2-Port-PCI-SuperSpeed-USB-3-Adapter-Card-with-SATA-Power~PCIUSB3S22
Chipset: NEC uPD720202 



FC23:

Supermicro  MBD-C7Z87 (Note: six native bootable USB3 ports)
https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Core/Z87/C7Z87.cfm

Intel Z87 Express Chipset
http://ark.intel.com/products/75013

Comment 2 Todd 2016-05-10 22:12:24 UTC
Upgraded my Z87 machine from FC23 to FC24 Beta.  No symptom change.  Copied a 7.4 GB file to an NTFS stick, after four hours, it had only copied 2.8 GB and I had to shut it down.

Comment 3 Todd 2016-05-12 16:08:46 UTC
If it helps with the troubleshooting, "dd" is not slow writing to a flash drive

Comment 4 Todd 2016-06-29 07:39:34 UTC
They have a kernel patch to test over on RHEL 7:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1333582

Comment 5 Laura Abbott 2016-09-23 19:40:49 UTC
*********** MASS BUG UPDATE **************
 
We apologize for the inconvenience.  There is a large number of bugs to go through and several of them have gone stale.  Due to this, we are doing a mass bug update across all of the Fedora 23 kernel bugs.
 
Fedora 23 has now been rebased to 4.7.4-100.fc23.  Please test this kernel update (or newer) and let us know if you issue has been resolved or if it is still present with the newer kernel.
 
If you have moved on to Fedora 24 or 25, and are still experiencing this issue, please change the version to Fedora 24 or 25.
 
If you experience different issues, please open a new bug report for those.

Comment 6 Todd 2016-09-24 21:52:35 UTC
It is not fixed in 

uname -r
4.7.4-200.fc24.x86_64

WARNING: if anyone does a mass update to test this, it will also update Wine and you will run afoul of 

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41273

Which will kill your ability to copy into the clipboard for most of your Wine application.

And dnf downgrade has its issues:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1197531

Comment 7 Fedora End Of Life 2016-11-25 08:57:47 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 23 is nearing its end of life.
Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining
and issuing updates for Fedora 23. It is Fedora's policy to close all
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Comment 8 Todd 2016-11-25 10:22:41 UTC
Would you please add this to Fedora 25 as well?

Comment 9 Fedora End Of Life 2016-12-20 20:22:46 UTC
Fedora 23 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-12-20. Fedora 23 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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