Seeing the same problem here on a desktop machine when doing dd of 40GB image.
Couldn't log in via ssh until dd was finished.
This was repeated in dmesg every 120 seconds:
[ 2520.696276] INFO: task ionice:2393 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
Colin: your suggestion
echo 10 | sudo tee /proc
Also seen after recent update in Maverick on a Fujitsu Lifebook C2240
with ATI Radeon IGP 350M. After wakeup from suspend, the screen
backlight is on but screen content is all black except for the cursor
arrow. Arrow can be moved using the touchpad, and changes to a vertical
bar when positioned whe
