I can confirm this problem on latest Gutsy. It bothered me a while, but shamefully I didn't yet took the time to report it and I forgot wether this first appeared in feisty or in gutsy. My system was upgraded at least since feisty, possibly also since dapper. I actually can't remember when I last installed ubuntu from scratch.
Attached are the outputs of dmesg, hdparm -tT, smartctl -a, lspci -vvn and a vmstat 2 during my latest dist-upgrade that made the system heavily unresponsive (again). Also, while tracker is indexing, or evolution is starting or any other normal disk-io is happening, the system becomes unusable. Dist-upgrades of only a few packages take ages. If there's anything I can do to help identify the root cause, please ask. ** Attachment added: "dmesg, hdparm -tT, smartctl -a, lspci -vvn and a vmstat 2" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9523385/debug.txt -- 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 the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
