** Description changed:

  This just started recently.   The problem is that when I am typing,
  e.g., in the URL address text or this text box, firefox will freeze for
  seconds at a time, and the system shows a very high (80%-100%) IO wait
  state.  Once that clears up, a second or few later, typing continues,
  until it freezes again, which takes a matter of seconds.  This does not
  seem to happen with some apps, such as gedit, gnome terminal, xterm or
  xchat, but is CONSTANT with firefox and pidgin, to name some.
  
- So far, it appears that I can isolate this behavior to using a USB
- keyboard.  I have tried several keyboards, albeit of the same model, to
- make sure that it is it not a single keyboard.  Something happens, and
- an entire core locks up in IOWAIT state.  It does not happen if I boot
- the same hardware into Fedora 11 or Ubuntu Hardy through Jaunty.
+ Something happens, and an entire core locks up in IOWAIT state.  It does
+ not happen if I boot the same hardware into Fedora 11 or Ubuntu Hardy
+ through Jaunty.
  
  If anyone has ideas on how to narrow this down further, or gather better
  forensic data, please let me know.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Aug 21 13:00:57 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-6.25-generic
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-6-generic x86_64

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Multiple GUI apps freezing with high I/O wait during typing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417041
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