[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-07-21 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-05-22 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Michisteiner, testing a live environment would be fine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1290337 Title: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down Status in “linux” package in U

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-05-22 Thread Michisteiner
@Christopher, sorry this is my main computer, so i cannot re-install from scratch (also wouldn't really have the time for this and also lack a separate disk). I assume, just running with old kernels probably won't work given that they are reasonably old? (otherwise, can you point me to a kernel pa

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-05-22 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Michisteiner, for regression testing purposes, could you please test 12.04.0 via http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/12.04.0/ and advise to the results? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.laun

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-05-21 Thread Michisteiner
@Christopher. Sorry, can't answer that question: i never run anything earlier than quantal on this hardware. On the previous laptop (thinkpad w500) where i run many earlier versions of ubuntu (including quantal for a few weeks) i did not notice that problem but then that laptop did have only 8GB o

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-05-21 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Michisteiner, just to clarify, did this problem not occur in a release prior to Quantal? ** Tags removed: kernel-bug-exists-upstream ** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream-3.15-rc5 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-05-20 Thread Michisteiner
# uname -a Linux babbage2 3.15.0-031500rc5-generic #201405091635 SMP Fri May 9 20:57:05 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux unfortunately, problem still exists, e.g., after half a day apt-get update takes minutes to update package list .. :-( -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-05-18 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Michisteiner, could you please test the latest mainline kernel via http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.15-rc5-utopic/ and advise to the results? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.lau

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-05-18 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Tags removed: bios-outdated-2.58 ** Tags added: latest-bios-2.58 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1290337 Title: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down Status in “linux”

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-05-18 Thread Michisteiner
# dmidecode -s bios-version ; dmidecode -s bios-release-date G5ET98WW (2.58 ) 04/01/2014 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1290337 Title: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow dow

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-05-18 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Michisteiner, could you please provide the output of the following terminal command: sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launc

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-05-17 Thread Michisteiner
I'm already running with the 2.58 ever since i upgraded to 14.04 four weeks ago. BTW: Given that the problem also appeared on quite different hardware (bug 1107150) i doubt that it has anything to do with BIOS. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, wh

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-05-17 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
michisteiner, as per http://download.lenovo.com/express/ddfm.html an update to your BIOS is available (2.58). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BiosUpdate does it change anything? If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-05-16 Thread Michisteiner
fyi: problem also still exists after upgrading to 14.04 (& 3.13.0-24) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1290337 Title: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down Status in “linux

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-03-20 Thread Michisteiner
yet another observation: yesterday i run all day with the standard 3.11 kernel with all 16GB RAM. At the end of the day i also got in the state where apt-get update took minutes (tens of them). Interestingly, also, the vm.cache_drop trick did not seem to have any speed-up effect on it. Also note th

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-03-19 Thread Michisteiner
another observation: i also run a few time apt-get update as others have used this as a benchmark. While not as slow as others have reported in bug 1107150, i did notice slow package reads of multiple minutes whereas a preceeding /sbin/sysctl -w vm.drop_caches=3 could drop it to <20 seconds. Inter

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-03-19 Thread Michisteiner
@Joseph, thanks for the info and i could install v3.14-rc7-trusty (although i had to switch from nvidia to integrated graphics as nvidia didn't seem to work anymore). The experience is somewhat mixed so far. In the half-day i'm running it i haven't seen really bad behaviour (no multi-minute apt-ge

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-03-17 Thread Joseph Salisbury
There is no longer a non-pae kernel after Precise, so the pae kernel is the same as the -generic kernel now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1290337 Title: [Lenovo ThinkPa

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-03-15 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1290337 Title: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down Status in “linux”

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-03-14 Thread Michisteiner
@joseph: as i replied to a similar request of yours in bug 1107150 (comment 66), i can't find the PAE kernels, e.g., the http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.14-rc5-trusty/ you point out does not seem to contain any PAE kernels (at least if still the old naming conventions apply). --

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1290337] Re: [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down

2014-03-13 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Summary changed: - I/O slow down on 32-bit PAE systems + [Lenovo ThinkPad W530] I/O slow down ** Description changed: - Symptoms are that as time goes by I/O gets slower and slower (primarily if not even only writes rather than reads). - It can be temporarily cured via /sbin/sysctl -w vm