System lags when doing large R/W operations on external disks
I am having some issues with system-wide latency/lagging when doing large disk imaging operations on an Ubuntu 18.04 system. Here’s the system specs:
usb-drive
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smartctl on external hdd inside ide-to-usb enclosure
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I’m running rsync to backup a remote machine to a USB hard drive on an ARM SBC and sometimes rsync just stops with “read error from input device (I/O error)”. I believe the issue is related to UAS + USB 3.0 + rsync causing high I/O load, because of uas_eh_device_reset_handler on /var/log/messages:
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Sometimes I unplug my usb drive only to find out files were not written to it.