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Neldar

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Registered: 2014-10-23

Posts: 11

[Solved]Computer slow down and freeze during data transfer syncing

Hello,

Everytime I make a data transfer, my computer slow down, and sometimes freeze during a few seconds, work for a fraction of seconds and freeze again. I don"t understand why.
As an example, here is a bench of files i transfered during a syncing with Grsync

It took about 12h to sync 64Gb.

I've read a lot of topics talking about this problem but nothing works. I tried to switch off the SWAP and setting the vm.dirty_ratio and vm.background_dirty_ratio but nothing works.

I'm making the trasfer between two Western Digital USB 2.0 external hard drive in NTFS.

Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks in advance

Last edited by Neldar (2015-03-04 15:54:29)

Neldar

Member

Registered: 2014-10-23

Posts: 11

Re: [Solved]Computer slow down and freeze during data transfer syncing

It seems it was beacause one of my external hard drive was about to die. I performed the same operation with 2 Western Digital external hard drive 1To USB3 and it works perfectly.