heavy I/O load bug in kernel persists in jaunty

[Khalid Rashid]

I understand, I'm going to try to see if there are any possibility to make
the developers job easier by putting a report concisting of those affected,
their systems and any common traits among their systems aswell as settings
and configurations. However in order to do this, there needs to be a way to
measure desptop responsiveness and I dont know of any tool that can do that
except human perception - which aren't always accurate. If someone has a
suggestion on how to measure this, please let me know!


On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:31 AM, TJ <ubuntu at tjworld.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 21:51 +0100, Khalid Rashid wrote:
> > This is a serious issue for a desktop user and should be dealt with in
> > order to not scare away potential new users. Is there any chance that
> > a kernel developer from ubuntu could look into this issue?
>
> The issue isn't limited to Ubuntu - this is inherited from mainline and
> appears to have been an issue for some systems and users since 2.6.17.
>
> The problem is there is no clear definition of what the cause is.
>
> As you can see from the mainline bug-report comments there are similar
> symptoms in a wide variety of scenarios with work-arounds that help some
> but not others. Overall it is only affecting a very small number of
> users which makes it harder to deal with.
>
> It is quite possible that a variety of issues are coming together to
> cause the pronounced delays in user experience.
>
> Until a kernel developer in particular can reliably reproduce the
> symptoms it is difficult to analyse. As you can see, a couple of
> experienced upstream developers are looking at the issue and they stand
> a better chance than most at pinning it down.
>
>
>
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