Public bug reported: For a while (even with previous ubuntu versions as well), speed of disk I/O is unacceptable. I thought it is a problem with my machine, but I have a quite different machine with the same problem now, and also it was quite OK a year (or years?) ago. Even installing a single deb package with dpkg lasts for minutes, other processes trying to access of disk are totally "dead", a single ls command in a terminal can wait for a minute sometimes. Also, sometimes the mouse cursor can't be moved for long seconds. There is nothing suspect in kernel log which can help. During disk I/O top reports wait state for almost all CPU time. Can it be caused by the pata->libata change for example, NCQ or something like this? I have no idea how to improve the situation. I can provide information of course if I know what I should send. Currently these are machines running up-to-date Ubuntu hardy (32 bit). I can say system is totally unusable even with smaller disk I/O load ... Thanks in advance!
** Affects: linux-meta (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Disk I/O is very slow, system freezes for seconds https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/268588 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