[15:23] <Cosmos> I have installed Xubuntu 18.04.1 and in trying to transfer large files to USB, the transfer pauses for many seconds between short spurts of data. Why can't it continuously transfer to the USB device like Windows does?
[15:25] <diogenes_> Cosmos, because you need to limit dirty bytes
[15:28] <Cosmos> I found that, and did this recommendation but it didn't help. https://gist.github.com/2E0PGS/f63544f8abe69acc5caaa54f56efe52f
[15:29] <Cosmos> Some said it worked, but it's not for me.
[15:31] <diogenes_> Cosmos, run: cat /proc/sys/vm/dirty_bytes
[15:32] <diogenes_> tell me the output
[15:33] <Cosmos> 0
[15:33] <diogenes_> run: sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf
[15:34] <diogenes_> at the end of the file you add: vm.dirty_bytes = 15728640
[15:34] <diogenes_> after that you run: sudo sysctl -p
[15:34] <diogenes_> reboot
[15:34] <diogenes_> come back again
[15:34] <Cosmos> Okay, will do.
[15:40] <Cosmos> Okay, I did that, but it didn't help- it transfers for at 40MiB/s for a few seconds then stops for a while, then picks up again, then stops, etc...
[15:41] <diogenes_> run: cat /proc/sys/vm/dirty_bytes
[15:42] <Cosmos> 15728640
[15:42] <diogenes_> hmmm what is drives filesystem? ntfs?
[15:43] <Cosmos> Zfs raid1 (2 USB sticks, as an experiment)
[15:45] <Cosmos> Sorry for the non-conventional setup, I thought it would work...
[15:45] <diogenes_> oh so windows writes to zfs without problems?
[15:45] <Cosmos> The OS is on Ext4
[15:45] <Cosmos> No, I formatted the USB sticks on the Xubuntu box.
[15:46] <Cosmos> Using Gparted
[15:46] <Cosmos> And Zpool
[15:46] <diogenes_> is there zfs option in gparted?
[15:47] <diogenes_> format them as ext4
[15:47] <Cosmos> No
[15:49] <Cosmos> I could later, it would break my raid. Thanks.
[15:50] <Cosmos> I'll get back to you later. Thanks so much for your help.
[15:51] <diogenes_> yw
[18:24] <xubuntu37d> Where I can found a way to help improving Xubuntu
[18:24] <xubuntu37d> ???
[18:39] <genii> !contribute
[18:39] <genii> ..oh, a bit late
[18:40]  * genii wanders back to the coffeepot