[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2015-11-06 Thread god
In my case ( see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1460985 ) the culprit generating huge I/O throughput was in /etc/cron.daily/man-db It's such a long-standing and persistent bug that the default advice I give nowadays to people complaining about their ubuntu "got stuck again"

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2015-10-06 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
Hi AZ, thanks for your feedback. >> IMHO if something overloads your machine with disk I/O it has to stall it. > This is a bit tricky, because overload means that the machine will be able > not complete all task in the time given, i.e. tasks will accumulate until the > resources are exhausted.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2015-10-05 Thread AZ
Thanks for driving this forward. You argue from > So let us make one thing clear, IMHO if something overloads your machine with > disk I/O it has to stall it. This is a bit tricky, because overload means that the machine will be able not complete all task in the time given, i.e. tasks will

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2015-10-01 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
It might not be good to stir up such an old bug, but it gets regularly updated and new complains so maybe a new approach might help. So let us make one thing clear, IMHO if something overloads your machine with disk I/O it has to stall it. So the solutions paths are more like this: a) beat it

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2015-09-16 Thread AZ
@Christopher: This is not incomplete. Thanks. ** 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/131094 Title: Heavy

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2015-07-29 Thread god
done. -- 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/131094 Title: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description:

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2015-07-26 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
god (humper), please file a new report via a terminal: ubuntu-bug linux Feel free to subscribe me to it. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2015-07-22 Thread god
I can observe this even on ssd with both ubuntu and mainline kernels. Especially when some background task like update.mlocate which spits out fs-wide find is triggered. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2015-03-12 Thread Davide Depau
This issue is not getting enough attention. I don't know if you all have SSDs but most people don't. On hard disk drives this is a huge issue. System responsiveness drops when tracker is running and pretty much nothing else can run smoothly while it's running, even on computers with fast

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2015-03-12 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Davide Depau, it would help immensely if you filed a new report via a terminal: ubuntu-bug linux Please feel free to subscribe me to it. ** No longer affects: linux (Ubuntu) ** Project changed: linuxmint = linux (Ubuntu) ** No longer affects: linux (Ubuntu) ** Project changed: linux = linux

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2014-10-02 Thread chemicalfan
** Changed in: linuxmint Status: New = Invalid -- 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/131094 Title: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness Status in The Linux

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2013-12-20 Thread Adam Niedling
Christopher M. Penalver: are you going to tell all the 165 people that are affected by this bug to open a new bug report for the same issue which is not even hardware related? If you just took a minute you could test this bug yourself instead of require us to do all that work to test the latest

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2013-12-20 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Adam Niedling, thank you for your comments regarding them: ...are you going to tell all the 165 people that are affected by this bug to open a new bug report... Given the Bug Description is so vague it's largely useless heavy disk I/O causes increased iowait times, if one has a performance

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2013-12-20 Thread Adam Niedling
Thanks for analysing each and every sentence of mine one by one. Who says only the original reporter can comment on bugs? I'm not the original reporter, I'm just somebody who is affected by this bug which you are trying to close in a very crafty way. It's not a speculation that you're doing this

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2013-12-20 Thread Ronan Jouchet
Adam Niedling wrote: I'm just somebody who is affected by this bug which you are trying to close in a very crafty way. It's not a speculation that you're doing this all the time, you did this to 2 or 3 of my own bugs. I'm getting tired of you pasting the same text everywhere. Maybe you're

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2013-12-20 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Quoting from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/336652/comments/15 : this is a serious issue but only affects limited hardware... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2013-12-20 Thread Adam Niedling
And who is to say that comment #15 is not just a mere speculation at best? What does he mean by limited hardware? Every comp that has HDD and not SSD? You really had someone's absolutely valid bug report closed because he wasn't able to do a git bisect? Just how many times did you do that? Who

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2013-12-20 Thread Vadim Peretokin
I'm surprised this is being debated. Look at Google: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=linux+high+io+desktopoq=linux+high+aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j69i64l2.1936j0j1sourceid=chromeie=UTF-8 You will clearly see that high enough IO will harm desktop responsiveness. Surely all of these people aren't

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2013-12-20 Thread Adam Niedling
Now Christopher is onto me. He started vandalizing another of my bug reports. Bug #1247189. -- 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/131094 Title: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2013-12-17 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Jamie McCracken, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2013-12-17 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Vadim Peretokin, so your hardware may be tracked, could you please file a new report by executing the following in a terminal while booted into a Ubuntu repository kernel (not a mainline one) via: ubuntu-bug linux For more on this, please read the official Ubuntu documentation: Ubuntu Bug

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2013-12-17 Thread vsuarez
Can this be related with this issue? http://lwn.net/Articles/572911/ -- 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/131094 Title: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness Status in

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2013-12-17 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
vsuarez, so your hardware may be tracked, could you please file a new report by executing the following in a terminal while booted into a Ubuntu repository kernel (not a mainline one) via: ubuntu-bug linux For more on this, please read the official Ubuntu documentation: Ubuntu Bug Control and

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2013-12-17 Thread Vadim Peretokin
I don't think it is related to http://lwn.net/Articles/572911/ because it is a 32bit machine. I'll file the report later when I've got access to the said machine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.