I/O Bound Procs Clobbering Responsiveness

Mon Nov 7 16:36:10 UTC 2011

This a subjective comment, but it seems that I/O bound procs
such as disk copy are seriously impacting GUI response more
than before.   For example, switching windows can take 30 seconds
or more.  Indeed it appears the system has halted except that the
clock seconds keep ticking away.

Setup:  R6550 8GB Fedora 16 64 bit accessed via TigerVNC over
a gigabit LAN.

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