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Bug 633734 - Copying via Nautilus much slower than via cp / pv
Copying via Nautilus much slower than via cp / pv
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: glib
Classification: Platform
Component: gio
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtkdev
gtkdev
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-11-01 19:35 UTC by Andrea Mayer
Modified: 2018-05-24 12:51 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Andrea Mayer 2010-11-01 19:35:29 UTC 
Originally reported at:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/667256

Binary package hint: gvfs

Steps to reproduce:
* Take a 50 GB virtual machine file and copy it via Nautilus from one disk to another
* First, the speed is about 70 MB/s as it should be and ETA is 12 minutes, but then it gets slower and slower and ETA increases
* It takes ~ 45 min then

Steps to get expected results:
* Copy via cp or pv (pipe viewer, just to see how fast and ETA) -> ETA is 12 min, speed is 70 MB/s but STAYS at this speed
* It takes 12 min

=> There is something in Nautilus / probably gvfs that takes aways 33 min. Because I do a backup of this machine always before starting to work on it, these 33 min are important for me.
Comment 1 Ross Lagerwall 2013-11-02 06:41:27 UTC 
Given that this is copying from one disk to another, it will be using the local file implementation of gio which lives in glib, not gvfs. Moving to glib...

Anyway, does this still happen? That seems like pretty odd behavior.
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 12:51:24 UTC 
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