File transfers very slow (Arch)

[dedanna1029]

I had two file transfers that have gone very slowly, and another one in nautilus as well that is very slow. The first was using 'rsync -avvh /path/to/source/folder/ /path/to/destination/folder/', both being external usb drives. 260Gbs total transfer, it took over 3 days, with average file size being approximately 7Gbs. I then started another, same conditions, except for average file size being 5Mbs. It has been going now for 2 days, and is nowhere near the half-way mark. As a test, I've started a file transfer of a folder using Nautilus, a 38Gb total transfer, with average file size being around 300Mbs, with Nautilus reporting 20 hours to go. I am wondering why these tranfers are taking so long? It was always before, that I could complete 300Gbs using rsync in approximately 5 to 6 hours. Any clue what's up? Thanks.

[dedanna1029]

The second transfer using rsync took over four days in Arch. Ridiculous! Then, tried an 8.5Gb transfer with it in Arch - almost 3 hours.

So, as a test, I switched to Fedora and tried that same 8.5Gb transfer. Took 11 minutes. Then, still in Fedora, tried a 250Gb transfer with rsync, took just over 3 hours. The transfer rate was much faster, too, at over a Mb per second.

No clue at all what's up here in Arch? It's only Arch that's doing this. I haven't tried it from KDE in Arch, only in Gnome.

Thanks.

[viking60]

You had the exact same situation in both cases? If you left some of the already copied files naturally the second attempt will be faster.

[dedanna1029]

No, I didn't leave them. I started over after deleting.

[dedanna1029]

Still no clue? I'll tell you what *I think* it is. Gnome 3. Period. I never had this issue until Gnome 3 (which I don't have on Fedora; I ran it out of Gnome 2 on F14). There's something about Gnome 3 I think, so it gets another thumbs down from me.

[viking60]

I don't know.