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AndrewG777

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Registered: 2025-09-02

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[SOLVED] The system partially freezes during copying large files

Hi everybody!

Arch Linux freezes during copying large files/directories from NTFS SATA SSD to ETX4 SATA SSD.
I can't open big programs during copying. After copying, games run but with lags, reboot required.

fastfetch:

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.16.4-arch1-1
Uptime: 17 mins
Packages: 1508 (pacman)
Shell: bash 5.3.3
Display (VSC402A): 1920x1080 @ 60 Hz in 23" [External]
Display (GSM5AB7): 1920x1080 @ 60 Hz in 22" [External] *
DE: KDE Plasma 6.4.4
WM: KWin (Wayland)
WM Theme: Breeze
Theme: Breeze (Light) [Qt], Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icons: breeze [Qt], breeze [GTK2/3/4]
Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]
Cursor: breeze (24px)
Terminal: konsole 25.8.0
CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-13400 (16) @ 4.60 GHz
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 [Discrete]
GPU 2: Intel UHD Graphics 730 @ 1.55 GHz [Integrated]
Memory: 3.55 GiB / 31.09 GiB (11%)
Swap: 0 B / 32.00 GiB (0%)
Disk (/): 577.64 GiB / 847.15 GiB (68%) - ext4
Disk (/run/media/andrew/Data): 2.35 TiB / 2.73 TiB (86%) - ntfs3
Local IP (enp6s0): 192.168.1.110/24
Locale: en_US.UTF-8

I did some settings to IO Scheduler:

/etc/udev/rules.d/60-ioschedulers.rules

# HDD
ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]*", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="1", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="bfq"

# SSD
ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]*|mmcblk[0-9]*", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="0", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="kyber"

# NVMe SSD
ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="nvme[0-9]*", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="0", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="kyber"

It nothing changes situation.

Do you have any suggestions?

upd: This is not happens when I download games in Steam. It is not reboot required after downloading a game.
This is not happens when I copying large files from system EXT4 SSD to NTFS SSD via Double Commander. No reboot required too.

upd: SOLUTION: replace weak SSD MSI S270.

Last edited by AndrewG777 (2025-09-07 22:35:18)

twelveeighty

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Registered: 2011-09-04

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Re: [SOLVED] The system partially freezes during copying large files

You forgot to tell us *how* you are copying those files: cp, rsync, Dolphin...?

AndrewG777

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Registered: 2025-09-02

Posts: 30

Re: [SOLVED] The system partially freezes during copying large files

I copy directories via Dolphin and via cp. Both produce the same effect if directory size is over ~30 GB.
And another effect: HDD LED stays on for some time after coping.
According htop swap file is not used.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] The system partially freezes during copying large files

Does this suggestion help?

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] The system partially freezes during copying large files

Arch Linux freezes during copying large files/directories from NTFS SATA SSD to ETX4 SATA SSD.
This is not happens when I download games in Steam. It is not reboot required after downloading a game.
This is not happens when I copying large files from system EXT4 SSD to NTFS SSD via Double Commander. No reboot required too.

ntfs3 or ntfs-3g ?

Edit: in doubt post the ouptut of

mount

Last edited by seth (2025-09-07 16:51:58)

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AndrewG777

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Registered: 2025-09-02

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Re: [SOLVED] The system partially freezes during copying large files

Thanks for all for replies!
The problem was bad hardware. I just replaced new MSI S270 960GB SSD with old Samsung 870 QVO 2TB SSD via Clonezilla. And everything works fine. This seems was the weak controller in the S270.