elevator=noop solved it for me also, but just as murz says: sometimes under heavy disk activity (dd iso -> empty sata drive) some parts of Xorg will pause, sometimes for several minutes.
I can also see that noop writes to the usb drives without pausing. Normal elevator writes for a few seconds, pause for 1.5 seconds and then keep writing. Noop writes without pauses. -- file transfers on USB flash key (pendrive) are slowing down with time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
