Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 19:25:29 schrieb Michael Hampicke: > > nice idea - but that didn't help in the past. Why should it help now? > > > > The question is - why does disk IO make the mouse jerky and delays > > keyboard > > input? That is just idiotic. > > It was just an idea, but maybe there's something wrong on the hardware > side? Broken cable, hard drive about to die?
no, and this problem has been there since Suse 6.2 and kernel 2.2 > > Have to checked the SMART data of your hard drive lately (error log, > relocate sector count). You can also run some tests with smartctl. of course > > Or monitor your IO with dstat or iotop. iotop tells you which app causes > high io load. cp of course > > Or maybe you kernel is using some generic and slow driver for your ata > controller instead of an optimized one? seriously... > > Personally I never had IO problems on linux unless theres was something > wrong with either the hardware or the kernel driver. good for you > > Hope that helps. no -- #163933
