Workstation product kernel requirements

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 09:17:07 +0100,
   Mateusz Marzantowicz <mmarzantowicz at osdf.com.pl> wrote:
>
>I'm not sure it is resolvable only at the kernel level but overall GUI
>responsiveness might improve a bit. We should not allow user process to
>make whole system become unresponsive. I encounter freezes from time to
>time, during which I can only move mouse pointer and must wait for a
>minute or two because some IO intensive process is working on the
>background.

Do you know if there is a bug for this? I have been seeing these symptoms 
for a while.