Slow NTFS Transfer Speeds

OpenCircuit · 12-11-2005, 05:12 PM

I'm pulling some old files off a NTFS filesystem and putting it on my box, and I'm noticing some rediculously slow transfer speeds (1mb/s) as well as it completely consuming my cpu and ram. Is there a fix for this? Just installed kernel 2.6.14.3, has been working great for me, but I noticed that 2.4.3 was much better at grabbing files from NT file systems.

Jeebizz · 12-11-2005, 05:27 PM

Make sure that dma is still enabled when 2.6 was installed, assuming you installed it from the second disk, and did not compile it yourself.

Code:

hdparm /dev/hda

You should see something like this

Code:

root@slacker:/home/slackuser/thunderbird# hdparm /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 multcount    =  8 (on)
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    =  8 (on)
 geometry     = 2482/255/63, sectors = 39876480, start = 0
root@slacker:/home/slackuser/thunderbird#