For what it's worth, even though the keyboard and mouse become unresponsive, the system overall continues to plow on just fine. Ongoing scripts running in my terminals keep going.
Another factor to consider is that I run a system with encrypted root, home, storage, and swap partitions, although I don't have any reason to believe the issue is IO related. -- Ubuntu 10.04 occasionally hangs for a couple of seconds https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576646 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
