[Bug 1017825] Re: USB IO excruciatingly slow on NTFS with dell xps15 laptop

[waspinator]

I'm on Ubuntu 12.10 (x86 as recommended).

copying files to a USB3 stick formatted as FAT gives me ~32MB/s. Same
USB3 stick formatted as NTFS gives me ~1MB/s.

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Title:
  USB IO excruciatingly slow on NTFS with dell xps15 laptop

Status in “ntfs-3g” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  (might as well be generic kernel / usb / laptop tools related but i am
  especially suspecting NTFS)

  Yesterday I was transferring files from an NTFS volume using a high-
  speed USB3 Samsung disk.

  The transfer rate according to iostat would not go above 900kB/s (yes,
  that's not even 1mB/s). The rates for the high speed device should be
  over 90mB/s!

  A couple of days ago I was using a plain USB memory stick and the
  transfers were even worse. It mostly never got over that same rate as
  the earlier device.

  Running xubuntu 12.04 (output of lsb_release):

  Description:	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
  Release:	12.04

  Some syslog logs when mounting the devices:

  The high speed drive reported:

  Jun 25 19:38:13 chris-xps15 kernel: [23094.064046] usb 4-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
  Jun 25 19:38:13 chris-xps15 mtp-probe: checking bus 4, device 2: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:04:00.0/usb4/4-1"
  Jun 25 19:38:13 chris-xps15 mtp-probe: bus: 4, device: 2 was not an MTP device
  Jun 25 19:38:13 chris-xps15 kernel: [23094.092592] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
  Jun 25 19:38:13 chris-xps15 kernel: [23094.092947] scsi6 : usb-storage 4-1:1.0
  Jun 25 19:38:13 chris-xps15 kernel: [23094.093118] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
  Jun 25 19:38:13 chris-xps15 kernel: [23094.093122] USB Mass Storage support registered.
  Jun 25 19:38:14 chris-xps15 laptop-mode: Laptop mode
  Jun 25 19:38:14 chris-xps15 laptop-mode: enabled, active
  Jun 25 19:38:14 chris-xps15 laptop-mode: Laptop mode
  Jun 25 19:38:14 chris-xps15 laptop-mode: enabled, active
  Jun 25 19:38:16 chris-xps15 kernel: [23097.116754] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Samsung  M2 Portable 3    3    PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
  Jun 25 19:38:16 chris-xps15 kernel: [23097.118623] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
  Jun 25 19:38:18 chris-xps15 kernel: [23099.136857] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 1953504688 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
  Jun 25 19:38:18 chris-xps15 kernel: [23099.137505] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
  Jun 25 19:38:18 chris-xps15 kernel: [23099.137512] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 27 00 00 00
  Jun 25 19:38:18 chris-xps15 kernel: [23099.138146] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
  Jun 25 19:38:18 chris-xps15 kernel: [23099.138157] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
  Jun 25 19:38:18 chris-xps15 kernel: [23099.140359] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
  Jun 25 19:38:18 chris-xps15 kernel: [23099.140367] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
  Jun 25 19:38:19 chris-xps15 kernel: [23099.168994]  sdc: sdc1
  Jun 25 19:38:19 chris-xps15 kernel: [23099.171232] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
  Jun 25 19:38:19 chris-xps15 kernel: [23099.171246] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
  Jun 25 19:38:19 chris-xps15 kernel: [23099.171254] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
  Jun 25 19:38:19 chris-xps15 ata_id[12600]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for '/dev/sdc': Invalid argument
  Jun 25 19:38:19 chris-xps15 ntfs-3g[12628]: Version 2012.1.15AR.1 external FUSE 28
  Jun 25 19:38:19 chris-xps15 ntfs-3g[12628]: Mounted /dev/sdc1 (Read-Write, label "SAMSUNG", NTFS 3.1)
  Jun 25 19:38:19 chris-xps15 ntfs-3g[12628]: Cmdline options: rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177
  Jun 25 19:38:19 chris-xps15 ntfs-3g[12628]: Mount options: rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,allow_other,nonempty,relatime,default_permissions,fsname=/dev/sdc1,blkdev,blksize=4096
  Jun 25 19:38:19 chris-xps15 ntfs-3g[12628]: Global ownership and permissions enforced, configuration type 7
  Jun 25 19:41:33 chris-xps15 ntfs-3g[12628]: Unmounting /dev/sdc1 (SAMSUNG)
  Jun 25 19:41:36 chris-xps15 ntfs-3g[12799]: Version 2012.1.15AR.1 external FUSE 28
  Jun 25 19:41:36 chris-xps15 ntfs-3g[12799]: Mounted /dev/sdc1 (Read-Write, label "SAMSUNG", NTFS 3.1)
  Jun 25 19:41:36 chris-xps15 ntfs-3g[12799]: Cmdline options: rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177
  Jun 25 19:41:36 chris-xps15 ntfs-3g[12799]: Mount options: rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,allow_other,nonempty,relatime,default_permissions,fsname=/dev/sdc1,blkdev,blksize=4096
  Jun 25 19:41:36 chris-xps15 ntfs-3g[12799]: Global ownership and permissions enforced, configuration type 7
  Jun 25 19:41:38 chris-xps15 ntfs-3g[12799]: Unmounting /dev/sdc1 (SAMSUNG)

  
  The low speed USB drive reported:

  
  Jun 24 13:40:34 chris-xps15 ntfs-3g[4534]: Version 2012.1.15AR.1 external FUSE 28
  Jun 24 13:40:34 chris-xps15 ntfs-3g[4534]: Mounted /dev/sdc1 (Read-Write, label "HEMA", NTFS 3.1)
  Jun 24 13:40:34 chris-xps15 ntfs-3g[4534]: Cmdline options: rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177
  Jun 24 13:40:34 chris-xps15 ntfs-3g[4534]: Mount options: rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,allow_other,nonempty,relatime,default_permissions,fsname=/dev/sdc1,blkdev,blksize=4096
  Jun 24 13:40:34 chris-xps15 ntfs-3g[4534]: Global ownership and permissions enforced, configuration type 7
  Jun 24 13:45:01 chris-xps15 CRON[4599]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
  Jun 24 13:55:01 chris-xps15 CRON[4973]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
  Jun 24 14:05:01 chris-xps15 CRON[5786]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
  Jun 24 14:09:04 chris-xps15 laptop-mode: Laptop mode 
  Jun 24 14:09:04 chris-xps15 laptop-mode: enabled, 
  Jun 24 14:09:04 chris-xps15 laptop-mode: active [unchanged]

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