I'm now pretty sure this is a disk access thing (it gets especially bad when I'm running a script that backs up my whole home directory with rsync), but fiddling with the script's i/o priority with 'ionice' doesn't really seem to help.
-- [Hardy] Heavy I/O causes other processes to starve https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205945 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
