System unresponsive during HDD activity
Bruno Wolff III
bruno at wolff.to
Fri Sep 17 19:09:31 UTC 2010
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 14:36:12 -0400,
Robert Myers <rbmyersusa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've never thought that there was anything more complicated to this
> phenomenon than that keyboard and disk i/o are both serviced by
> interrupts.
That's not likely the problem. It's probably competing access to disk I/O
between the process displaying the desktop and other processes using disk I/O.
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