[Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

[Rocko]

@cornbread: I think they've put the 'no new fair sleepers' patch into
ubuntu's 2.6.31 kernel, which does help with responsiveness (though it
slows down some high-CPU tasks like games). This might explain it.

However, I noticed a massive drop in responsiveness yesterday while
copying 14GB to a flash drive, including a frozen mouse cursor for up to
thirty seconds. Although atop showed that my internal hard drive
(/dev/sda) was only being used very lightly (as you'd expect when
copying to flash), it was thrashing away constantly. So there are still
some issues.

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Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094
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