I used to be affected quite badly by this problem, through all of Intrepid and into Jaunty. My system's no longer affected.
What eventually appeared to resolve the problem for me was a combination of newer kernels (somewhere in Jaunty's updates, sorry I don't have a version to reference) and a motherboard BIOS update - everything related to SATA disk access got noticeably more stable with newer BIOSes. Jaunty became quite usable, and I haven't had any problems in Karmic. So to anyone currently still experiencing this problem: see if there is a BIOS update available for your motherboard, and ensure you're running the latest kernel in Jaunty/Karmic. If you're still pre-Jaunty, consider upgrading. Just my $0.02. -- Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094 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
